Going Down the Data Mine

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/09/2010	CIJ Summer School	I sharpened my Excel and Access skills and was introduced to SQL. Here is the overview
07/23/2010	ScraperWiki Hacks and Hackers Day Birmingham	I went all the way to Birmingham for thsi Hacks/Hackers day. I met ScraperWiki for the first time. Found it through chatting with a random guy at a talk.
08/05/2010	Hacks/Hackers London	Here's the meetup group
08/09/2010	Data Miner UK	I began my blog
08/16/2010	Twitter account	I became DataMinerUK on Twitter and began collating a list of dataminers
08/18/2010	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	I attended this meetup
09/17/2010	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	I attended this meetup
09/22/2010	Frontline Club	I attended a talk on data skills and techniques for jounralists.
10/20/2010	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	I attended this meetup
11/12/2010	Internet Week - The Web Data Revolution	I went to The Guardian for this talk
11/18/2010	Horizon digital Economy - Open Data Masterclass	I attened this geocoding-based masterclass
11/24/2010	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	I attended this meetup, sponsored by ScraperWiki.
12/16/2010	News Rewired	I spent all day looking for data related information at this conference
01/19/2011	An Introduction to Data Jounralism	I attended this one-day course and actually found it too basic. I must be doing something right.
01/21/2011	Programming for Non-Geeks	I virtually attended this online webinar from Poynter, the online news university.
02/01/2011	ScraperWiki	I became a data journalist at ScraperWiki
02/18/2011	Channel 4 News article	Managed to find data interesting enough for a Channel 4 News article
02/23/2011	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	I attended this meetup
03/03/2011	Data and News Sourcing	I attended these workshops run by the Media Standards Trust, BCC College of Journalism and the Royal Statistical Society.
03/07/2011	Channel 4 News Article	This visualization was built by ScraperWiki. I was product manager (so to speak) and I gathered the data.
03/07/2011	Channel 4 News Article	This visual was made from the first data set I managed to scrape and I was the data journalist on the amazing ScraperWiki team that built this in a matter of days.
03/11/2011	Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff	REad about the projects from the day on the Scraperwiki blog
03/25/2011	Hacks and Hackers Hack Day, Glasgow	Read about what went on here. We had 8 teams of hacks and hackers digging around the Scottish data beat. Data on fire incidents, planning applications, public-owned property and gifts councillors’ received were mined.
03/28/2011	My First Successful Piece of Code!	Read about how I did it here. Or watch the screencasts: part 1 here and part 2 here
03/31/2011	Scraper: Special Advisers' gifts and hospitality	Get the data here
04/05/2011	Story: Special Treatment for Special Advisers	I wrote this story using the data I scraped on gifts and hospitality for Special Advisers in No.10. It shows how the media companies are the major winers and diners.
04/07/2011	Data: Scrape it, Save it, Get it	I made these screencasts showing you the bascis of how to use ScrpaerWiki to scrape data.
04/08/2011	Story: The Best Things in Life are Free	I wrote this story after cleaning up some data I found scraped from the Work4MP jobs listing site. It was in regards to Nick Cleggs call to get Westminister interns paid.
04/18/2011	Scraper: Ministerial meetings with external organisations	Get the data here.
04/19/2011	Story: Small Society	The story I wrote regarding what I found from the Ministerial Meetings scraper.
04/20/2011	Maker Night	Embarking on a new venture to hack 'things' using Arduino with these guys. Stay tuned for the results.
04/26/2011	Scraper: Permanent Secretaries’ meetings with external organisations	Get the data here.
04/26/2011	Scraper: Ministerial Gifts from external organisations	Get the data here.
04/26/2011	Scraper: Ministerial Hospitality from external organisations	Get the data here.
04/27/2011	Scraper: Cabinet Office spend data	Get the data here.
04/27/2011	Hacks/Hackers Meetup	Read about the meetup here.
05/03/2011	Data Journalism: The Story So Far	A piece I wrote covering what I can about the state of data journalism (past, present and future) here.
05/06/2011	Post: Opening Data, Opening Minds	Read the post.
05/17/2011	Story: Cabinet Office Spending Data	Read the post.
05/19/2011	#djcamp 2011	Data Journalism Camp organised by The Digital Editor's Network. Check out the flyer. This blog was mentioned in the manual written by Tom Johnson of the Centre for Analytical Journalism.
05/24/2011	Scraper: Technology Strategy Board Spending	You can download th data here.
05/24/2011	Post: Data Harveting	Read the post.
05/27/2011	News Rewired	I was a speaker at this conference whose theme was data journalism. I was honored to be included in a very impressive line up.
05/28/2011	Knight-Mozilla Challenge	Had a great time at this jam for developers and journalists. Martin Belam was on my team and wrote up our team work on this blog post. I think The Guardian might do something with one of my ideas, the panopticon.
05/30/2011	Post: Sorting the Social Media Chaos	A write up of my talk at News Rewired for the tweeters that asked for it. For anyone interested in using social media for news gathering or investigation read the post
06/01/2011	News Rewired Blog	Featured and pictured on this blog post. Was honored to be in a line up of speakers that included Heather Brookes, James Ball, Chris Taggart, Kevin Anderson and Anna Doble.
06/06/2011	Post: Visualization - A Cloud of Spending	Build my first visualization from scraped data. You can read the post here. ScraperWiki user quickly copied the code and made it better.
06/10/2011	Power & Media Conference - POLIS	Attended conference. You can read about it here
06/22/2011	Scraped government salaries and wrote a post on non disclosure	You can read the post here
06/27/2011	Scraped Berlin data for open democracy project	During a workshop I helped make some small scrapers for an open democracy project for Germany called meine-demokratie
06/28/2011	Post: To Scrape or not to Scrape	Read about my reflections on programming to find news here
06/30/2011	Post: WhyData Needs Journalism and Journalism Needs Data	My reflections on training journalists for the new data driven world. You can read them here
07/01/2011	Inerview for BuzzData	You can read it here
07/05/2011	Scraped Arms Transfers Database for Hacks/Hackers Toronto	You can get the exports here and you'll find a link to the imports.
07/08/2011	Post: Judges under the Hammer	Publsihed a post here about a scrpaed twitter account I made for the judicial complaints. Follow @OJCstatements on twitter.
07/11/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Aza Raskin	He gave this presentation about prototyping
07/11/2011	Scraper: Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan ISAF	Download the data here. First excel scraper
07/12/2011	Scraper: Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan ARM	Download the data here.
07/13/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Burt Herman	The former AP foreign correspondent and founder of Storify gave this presentation about entrepreneurial journalism.
07/13/2011	Email Alert: For US nuclear reactors	An experiment but you can check out the code here.
07/14/2011	Post: Build a business for your newsroom or make building a newsroom your business?	Read it here. My piece on how a data journalist shoulld be a newsroom microcosm for the entrepreneurial journalist.
07/14/2011	Tech talk at the Guardian	They invited me of all people! Great to see @gudaithi and @currybet again. And good pal @newsmary is now there. Seems all of Hacks/Hackers are migrating to the Guardian.
07/18/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Chris Heilmann	He gave this lecture about web development and new capabilities in the browser and the Open Web.
07/20/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: John Resig	John talked about building community around opens-source software ideas, and projects, and also how to successfully build software 'lego' -- that is, the building blocks that enable other people to do amazing things on the open Web.
07/21/2011	Scraper: Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan UNAMA	Download the data here.
07/21/2011	Post: Getting to grips with ScraperWiki for those who don't code	Go through the exercises outlined here. This is a copy of what I set up for the CIJ summer school workshop
07/22/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Jesse James Garrett	In 2002, Jesse wrote the book The Elements of User Experience. Watch his webinar to the lab here
07/22/2011	Post: Hack the Open Web, Not People's Private Phones	Written for OpenDemocracy and longer version on my blog.
07/25/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Shazna Nessa	Shazna Nessa is Director of Interactive at the Associated Press in New York. Nessa runs a global department that provides visual and interactive news content to customers in all formats. Watch the webinar she gave to the lab here
07/25/2011	Post: Online News - The Big Picture	My idea spark for the MozNewsLab. You can read about it here
07/26/2011	Post: Telling a Story through Code - A Tale of Two Hamsters	Tutorial to learn classes turned into a blog post which you can read here
07/27/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Mohamed Nanabhay	Mohamed Nanabhay, is an internet entrepreneur and Head of Online at Al Jazeera English. Watch the webinar he gave to the lab here
07/28/2011	Post: Online News - Geeky Guidance	Getting some advice from my geeky friends on my MozNewsLab idea. Read about it here
07/29/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Oliver Reichenstein	Oliver Reichenstein is CEO of iA (Information Architects, Inc.), known as “one of the best-known design agencies in the world.” Watch the webinar he gave to the lab here
08/01/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Evan Hansen	Evan Hansen is the Editor In Chief of Wired.com. Under his stewardship, Wired.com’s traffic has grown fourfold, reaching more than 10 million unique visitors a month. Hansen has won numerous awards for technology reporting and writing. Watch the webinar he gave the lab here
08/02/2011	Post: Journalism - To Learn, to Teach, to Know	Gave an interview to DataJournalismBlog which you can watch here
08/03/2011	MozNewsLab Webinar: Jeff Jarvis	Jeff Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do? He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. Listen to the webinar he gave the lab here
08/04/2011	Post: The Big Picture	Read about my proposal for the MozNewsLab here
08/09/2011	Post: 10 Things for Getting Started in Data Journalism	Read the post here
08/15/2011	Post: ScraperWiki for those who don't code - the answers	Answers to a previous tutorial which you can go through here
08/18/2011	Post: Sink/Source Journalism - A News Model for the Digital Age	Read the blog post here
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
06/27/2011 to 07/01/2011	Open Knowledge Conference 2011	Attended and helped run ScraperWiki workshop. You can find teh lineup here
07/15/2011 to 07/17/2011	CIJ Summer School Workshop	I was one of the many great speakers this year!