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*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 of a visual journalism team at the BBC. Data journalism
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Live-blogged notes from Cork Haik's talk at news:rewired
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Greg Hadfield, quoted by Sarah Marshall on journalism.co.uk [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/12/02/how-open-data-has-changed-journalism/] : > An open-data tsunami will mean that more journalism will be about interpreting – and putting into context – data that is open to all, at least in its rawest, unrefined form. To
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Kevin Anderson: > Yes, we’re now going to have to suffer through lots of ill-informed speculation from columnists. Brace yourself yet again as they take out their favourite axe from the kitchen cupboard and grind away on it just a bit more until the head is gone and they’
conferences
[http://www.nextconf.eu/next11/?cid=Banner_Register_Fullsize_rec] I have been invited to be an official blogger at this month’s Next Conference, in Berlin [http://nextconf.eu/next11/]. And given the subject – Data Love [http://nextconf.eu/next11/next11-means-data-love/] – how could I possibly refuse? Data is a
business models
Neat piece of data visualisation from The Undestatement [http://theunderstatement.com/post/4019228737/digital-subscription-prices-visualized-aka-the-new] . The New York Times charging model is completely out of line with general online service subscriptions. More data to suggest that is a reinforce print [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/03/propping_up_print_with_
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Rachel from journalism.co.uk has done a rather lovely video feature [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-features/video-hacks-and-hackers-join-forces-at-rbi-for-data-journalism-experiments/s5/a541788/] of the RBI-hosted hacks and hackers day [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/11/hacksnhackers_day_at_rbi.html] from earlier in the week:
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David McCandless – Information is Beautiful Oh, look. David McCandless. I’be blogged his talks once [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/10/media140_information_is_beautiful.html] or twice [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/09/science_online_cultures_clash_over_infog.html] recently. He’s kicking off with his
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(Live-blogging – prone to error, omission and typos…) Rufus Pollock from Open Knowledge Foundation Wouldn’t it be nice to know where our money goes when we pay taxes? You need lots of stuff – government spending (local and regional), region codes, company data… Much of it locked up or in difficult
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Judith’s just posted the news to the Scraperwiki blog [http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/10/19/scraperwikirbi-launch-first-in-house-hacks-hackers-event-for-b2bs/] : RBI’s hosting a Hacks & Hackers sessions here in Quadrant House. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the hack days are designed to bring together “hacks” – journalists – and “hackers” – developers – to
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**[A Data-driven Look at the Realtime Web](http://www.slideshare.net/hmason/a-datadriven-look-at-the-realtime-web-3996113 "A Data-driven Look at the Realtime Web")**View more [presentations](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [Hilary Mason](http://www.slideshare.net/hmason).
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In all the discussion about data journalism that’s been kicking around of late, I think this quote, highlighted by Neil Perkin [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2010/08/stuff-you-know-but-dont-know-you-know.html] , is probably the most critical: > Eric Schmidt summed it up: “Between the dawn of civilisation and