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My Presentation for News:Rewired – Doing the Data Mash
For once, I didn’t put links into a presentation, so here instead are the link resources for my News:Rewired presentation: (If I get a chance over the next week or so, I may even try to make a...
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Using Google Spreadsheets Like a Database – The QUERY Formula
In this year’s student satisfaction tables, which universities have a good teaching score but low employment prospects? How would you find out? In this post, you’ll find out… Whether or not it was one...
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Creating Database Query Forms in Google Spreadsheets – Sort Of
It’s all very well using a Google spreadsheet as a database, but sometimes you just want to provide a simple form to let people run a particular query. Here’s a quick way of doing that within a...
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UK Journalists on Twitter
A post on the Guardian Datablog earlier today took a dataset collected by the Tweetminster folk and graphed the sorts of thing that journalists tweet about ( Journalists on Twitter: how do Britain’s...
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Data Driven Journalism – Survey
The notion of data driven journalism appears to have some sort of traction at the moment, not least as a recognised use context of some very powerful data handling tools, as Simon “Guardian Datastore”...
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Routine Sources, Court Reporting, the Data Beat and Metadata Journalism
In The Re-Birth of the “Beat”: A hyperlocal online newsgathering model (Journalism Practice 6.5-6 (2012): 754-765), Murray Dick cites various others to suggest that routine sources are responsible for...
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Some Notes on Churnalism and a Question About Two Sided Markets
Whilst recently pondering automated content generation from original data sources again (eg as per Data Textualisation – Making Human Readable Sense of Data, or Notes on Narrative Science and Automated...
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