AI
Shrimp Jesus and other unexpected results of the AI boom
AI is at once more ubiquitous and less useful than people think. Navigating the coming flood of generated content is going to be a challenge.
data journalism
Data Journalism UK 2017: the presentations
All the presentations from the Data Journalism UK 2017 event [https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/12/11/data-journalism-uk-2017-presentations/] : > You can find all the presentations at the conference Slideshare account [https://www.slideshare.net/DataJournalismUK] with the tag ‘DJUK17’ [https://www.slideshare.net/tag/djuk17], from Megan Lucero‘s keynote on
data journalism
How to use Google Trends data in journalism
How to use Google Trends data in journalism [https://medium.com/google-news-lab/what-is-google-trends-data-and-what-does-it-mean-b48f07342ee8#.26otqk455] An excellent piece by Simon Rogers explaining how Google Trends data is collected, and the context for understanding it. In short – it’s relative rather than absolute data, and you’re looking for spikes and changes
data journalism
Mapping the social networks of Star Wars
The social networks of Star Wars, visualised [http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/12-15-star-wars-social-network/index.html] > 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 the
gamergate
Social media, data journalism and #gamergate
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/10/obligatory_gamergate_post.html] would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data
data journalism
The dangers and rewards of Data Journalism
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/photo-3631.html] Allison Schrager has a problem with data journalism [http://qz.com/189703/the-problem-with-data-journalism/]: > But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. The author’s priors, what
APIs
Flickr, data and the historic built environment
What happens if you mix the geo-data embedded in photos with some data about where our listed buildings are in London? This: > Higher graded buildings were more likely to have photographs taken near them: 88% of Grade Is had at least one photograph falling within 25m of their centre
data journalism
Data Journalism - buzzword or baseline skill?
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/data-journalism-panel-3479.html] Liveblogged notes from the Data Journalism: Mapping the future? [http://www.themediasociety.com/event-data-journalism-mapping-future-22-january-2014/] event held by the Media Society [http://www.themediasociety.com] last night. Please note: not a complete transcription, and captured in real-time and thus liable
business strategy
Amped about ampp3d and rigorous innovation
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/ampp3d-3427.html] When I first heard about Trinity Mirror’s Us vs th3m [http://usvsth3m.com], I rolled my eyes. Did the UK really need another Buzzfeed clone? Were our publishers incapable of innovating rather than jumping on yet another bandwagon?
data journalism
Data Journalism for beginners
Talking of Mr Bradshaw, he’s taken the skills that have given him a well-earned reputation as one of the leading proponents of data journalism and distilled some of them into a new book. The Data Journalism Heist [https://leanpub.com/DataJournalismHeist] aims to be a quick introduction to data
BBC
Digital news formats: the BBC explores linked data
Fascinating blog post exploring how the BBC is experimenting with linked data [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogbbcinternet/posts/BBC-News-Lab]: > After producing a long list of possible ‘problem spaces’ we prioritised four areas to explore: * Location and linked data. How might we use geolocation and linked data to
apple
FInding the story in the data
Fabulous account of how, while all the tech press were busy writing comment pieces, one guy used the data to figure out where all the Apple device IDs [http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src/] that Antisec claimed to have stolen from the FBI actually came from: > I’d