Linklog special: datajournalism at The Guardian & The Observer
by Martin Belam, 1 September 2010
A special edition of the linklog today. If you were at the 1st Datajournalism Meetup in Berlin this afternoon where I was talking about datajournalism at The Guardian and The Observer, then here is a list of some of the things that I mentioned. If you weren't, then consider this a sneak preview of some of the things I'll be writing about when I publish the longform version of the talk...
- guardian.co.uk: The Afghanistan War Logs.
- guardian.co.uk: Wikileaks' Afghanistan war logs - how our datajournalism operation worked - Simon Rogers with a behind-the-scenes look at processing the Wikileaks data.
- Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools - interview with Guardian DataBlog editor Simon Rogers
- Guardian DataBlog.
- DataBlog: British dead and wounded in Afghanistan - month by month statistics, up until August 2010.
- Datablog: Florence Nightingale - datajournalist - a look at some of the data visualisations she made in her notes and diaries.
- BBC: Doctor Who - official website for the long running British science fiction/fantasy show.
- Datablog: Every Doctor Who villain since 1963.
- guardian.co.uk: How Doctor Who's enemies took over my life - Simon Rogers blogs about the success of the DataBlog Doctor Who posts.
- Datablog: Doctor Who - Every single journey through time detailed by Information is Beautiful - an attempt to map every hop, skip and jump through time by the TARDIS.
- guardian.co.uk: Investigate your MPs expenses - the first version of the crowd-sourcing exercise.
- guardian.co.uk: Investigate your MPs expenses 2 - the second version of the crowd-sourcing exercise using improved 'game mechanics'.
- guardian.co.uk: Help us solve the mystery of Tony Blair's finances - a crowd-sourced investigation into the financial affairs of the UK's former Prime Minister.
- guardian.co.uk: World Cup Twitter replay.
- Inside Guardian.co.uk: World Cup instant Twitter replay - how we did it - Alistair Dant explains the technology behind the replay.
- Guardian Open Platform
- guardian.co.uk: What is the Open Platform - a video explaining what the API is, from lead technical architect Mat Wall.
- Open Platform Content API Explorer - a search interface onto The Guardian's content API.
- guardian.co.uk: World Government Data store - an interface into a collection of civic and state datasets from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and US.
- guardian.co.uk: The IA behind the World Government Datastore - my blog post about the development process of the World Government Datastore tool.
- guardian.co.uk: Coins Data Explorer - an interface onto the UK Government's spending database.
- guardian.co.uk: Coins Data Explorer manual - blog post with instructions on how to use the Coins Data Explorer including some scary lines like 'and we can add a JSONP callback' etc etc...
- guardian.co.uk: What is Information Architecture? - my attempt to explain my job to The Guardian's audience.