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It’s like talking but without the words: how data can do away with language
Data is universal in a way beyond language. Photo by photobrad (via Flickr cc) I once dreamt I was a concert pianist. I was standing in the wings of the Albert Hall, sucking in air heavy with dusty...
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Dangerous data: the importance of being thorough
You always need to build a story around the numbers. Photo by Koen Vereeken (via Flickr cc) There is nothing more wasteful than a story half told. More than wasteful, the half-truth is a deceptive,...
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A Brave New World: Aine McGuire of ScraperWiki
ScraperWiki: a toolkit for the future. Image courtesy of ScraperWiki In a world of numbers and computers, of social media and online communities, it’s easy to assume that journalism isn’t what it used...
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Oy vey, what did you say? Data on the concentration of Yiddish speakers in...
Verbal vanguard: children are taught Yiddish to forge their cultural identity (NORTE_IT) Article based on this data from the 2011 census There are some sounds that are always associated with certain...
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Wasted data, wasted lives: Nicholas Felton’s Annual Reports
Feltron 2012 is the eight edition of the project (all images courtesy of Nicholas Felton) Data is life crunched up, it cannot exist unless it has first been lived. Be it statistics on languages spoken...
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How I…scraped a table from a website
You can scrape data from a website into an Google spreadsheet (okfn) Long, long ago, in a university classroom about an hour away, I sat in an intensive all-day workshop given by Paul Bradshaw and from...
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How I….analysed data using filters and pivot tables
Filters and pivot tables are quick and easy ways of digging into datasets This is the data used in the below example So there I was, sitting minding my own business, when ping goes Facebook chat. It’s...
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London MPs donations and how data transparency just isn’t good enough
My map showing what data I could pull together in two hours Never. Been. So. Annoyed. Bit of an exaggeration there, but making this interactive map was far more difficult that it should have been,...
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The new direction of data journalism at The Times and Sunday Times
The Times of London has always thought of itself as a paper of record. Words are bandied about the office that its journalists are penning the first draft of history. That in years to come, people will...
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Keep it all together Sam
In an attempt to tidy up my online presence I am moving everything (including my blogging) over to my main website www.samcreighton.co.uk. Please check there if you’re interested in finding future posts.
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