Is Data Journalism any more open?
What does the shortlist of the open data category of the Data journalism awards tell us about data journalism’s approach to open data.
Topic
open data
A collection of 10 issues
Why open data needs to be "Citizen literate"
A “data literate” citizen isn’t someone who knows how to handle a spreadsheet — it’s someone who inherently understands the value of data in decision making.
How open is open data journalism?
Simon Rogers published a post last week that asked “What does data journalism
look like in 2016?”. For Rogers, the winners of the data journalism awards
[http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/programmes/data-journalism-awards/]“give us
a great sense of where the industry is right now.”
He’s right, the range and
Media Mill: Open data newsletter and slides
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting about Open Data a lot recently. It’s
mainly because of a project that I’m working on as a researcher called Media
Mill [http://mediainnovationstudio.org/project/mediamill/]. One of the things
I’ve been doing is pushing out a
Open data and rent-seeking economies
Yesterday, I was introduced to a concept I hadn’t heard of before – rent seeking
behaviour. Its an economics term that essentially means that instead of
investing time developing things that you can sell, you spend all your money
making it really hard for the other guy to sell their
Pulling policing data into Google sheets
Last week I had a regional newspaper group in for a few days exploring lots of
different things. One area that popped up was data and we did a quick breakout
looking at some data from an FOI on 101 calls. It was a whirlwind overview –
you can see the
Open data: What can we expect from the conservatives?
We have a conservative government in the UK for the next five years. I’ve been
looking at open data a lot for some research that I’m doing so I wanted to cast
a proper eye over their manifesto [https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto] to
see what was on
Open data overload:yorkopendata and #localdata15
For the last week it’s feels like my life has been all about opendata.
My immersion into the world of open data that started last Friday with my trip
up to Leeds for the DataDive
[http://digidickinson.net/2015/04/20/refelcting-on-the-leeds-datadive/],
continued with two events driven by open
Reflecting on the Leeds #Datadive
Last Friday night, I found myself in a sun filled loft workshop in Leeds. All
the people in the room seemed to be in one corner, but that’s where the (free)
bar was. Tables are set out in rows. Solid wood and rubber topped refugees from
the re-fit of
Refelcting on the #ODISummit
Over the last two days I’ve been in London getting my head around the Open Data
community at the Open Data institute’ [http://opendatainstitute.org/]s second
Open Data Summit [http://summit.theodi.org/].(#odisummit
[https://twitter.com/hashtag/odisummit])
I’m involved in an InnovateUK/Nesta funded project