The social networks of Star Wars, visualised Some of us are looking forward to Christmas, and some of us are looking forward to the new film in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens. Meanwhile, I decided to look at…
data visualisation
A collection of 8 posts
Data Journalism - buzzword or baseline skill?
Liveblogged notes from the Data Journalism: Mapping the future? event held by the Media Society last night. Please note: not a complete transcription, and captured in real-time and thus liable to inaccuracy, error, incomprehension and howling grammatical mistakes. Panel: Chair:…
From Data to Story - #newsrw
*Four visions of data journalism, moderated by Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. * Bella Hurrell, specials editor on the BBC News website The BBC specials team produces a whole range of added-value content for the BBC website. They’re becoming part…
#next11 - An API to your body's data
David Rowan tried to build a compelling case for gathering and sharing data about yourself, because it can benefit both yourself and society. One example: Patients like me. It’s a site where people are sharing response to treatments for…
Just a leaf on the Blog Tree
Fun visualisation of the “relationship” between some leading blogs in the tech and online communication space. There’s more [about the Blog Tree concept](http://blog.eloqua.com/the-blog-tree) on the Eloqua blog.Found [via Social Times](http://www.socialtimes.…
#media140 - Dataeconomy - New Opportunities, New Business Models
**Andrew Lyons – **Ultraknowledge The dataeconomy is about turning information into a usable asset – and an engaging experience. So, there’s a reason to develop new business models. Lyons invested £100 in a quiz at the beginning (the money was the…
#media140 - Dataeconomy - Visualisation
David McCandless – Information is Beautiful Oh, look. David McCandless. I’be blogged his talks once or twice recently. He’s kicking off with his billion dollar-a-gram. He scraped all the data for it from journalism sites, but he did it…
Science Online: Cultures Clash over Infographics
Today’s been an interesting contrast with yesterday. dConstruct was very much a temple of the converted, discussing elements of web design theology. Science Online is much more of a culture clash, with the social media crowd meeting sceptical scientist,…