This simple piece of visualisation will have you rethinking what you know...
It’s not often I encounter a piece of data journalism which solves a common problem in the field – and it’s even rarer to find a piece of work which tackles two. But that’s just what lean data...
View ArticlePanini sticker albums – a great way to learn programming and statistics
1970 sticker album – image by John Cooper When should you stop buying football stickers? I don’t mean how old should you be – but rather, at what point does the law of diminishing returns mean that it...
View ArticleData journalism at the 2015 UK General Election: geeks bearing gifts
This has been the election when the geeks came in from the cold. There may be no Nate Silver-style poster boy for the genre this side of the pond – but instead, I believe we’ve finally seen the...
View ArticleThe legacy of Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed
Really sad that Mirror is shutting @UsVsTh3m @ampp3d & @MirrorRowZed. They were the only things on their site I read: http://t.co/JTgBafmMVh — Matt Locke (@matlock) May 13, 2015 It is perhaps a...
View ArticleUPDATED: Ampp3d and UsVsTh3m: 9 of their best moments
Trinity Mirror are closing Ampp3d and UsVsTh3m. Here are just 7 9 of their best moments, in reverse order. Are there any you think should be here too? 9. More people may have died building venues for...
View ArticleGiving a voice to the (literally) voiceless: data journalism and the dead
In the Bureau’s Naming the Dead visualisation, blue indicates civilian victims and red alleged militants Giving a voice to the voiceless is one of the core principles of journalism. Traditionally this...
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