data journalism 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.
data journalism 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.
data journalism 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“give us a great
open data 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
open data 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
data journalism 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
open data 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
open data 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, continued with two events driven by open data.
open data 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
open data 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’s second Open Data Summit.(#odisummit) I’
