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I sharpened my Excel and Access skills and was introduced to SQL.
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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.
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I began my blog
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I became DataMinerUK on Twitter and began collating a list of dataminers
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I attended this meetup
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I attended this meetup
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I attended a talk on data skills and techniques for jounralists.
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I attended this meetup
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I went to The Guardian for this talk
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I attened this geocoding-based masterclass
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I attended this meetup, sponsored by ScraperWiki.
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I spent all day looking for data related information at this conference
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I attended this one-day course and actually found it too basic. I must be doing something right.
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I virtually attended this online webinar from Poynter, the online news university.
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I became a data journalist at ScraperWiki
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Managed to find data interesting enough for a Channel 4 News article
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I attended this meetup
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I attended these workshops run by the Media Standards Trust, BCC College of Journalism and the Royal Statistical Society.
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This visualization was built by ScraperWiki. I was product manager (so to speak) and I gathered the data.
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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.
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REad about the projects from the day on the Scraperwiki blog
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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.
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Get the data here
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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.
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I made these screencasts showing you the bascis of how to use ScrpaerWiki to scrape data.
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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.
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Get the data here.
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The story I wrote regarding what I found from the Ministerial Meetings scraper.
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Embarking on a new venture to hack 'things' using Arduino with these guys. Stay tuned for the results.
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Get the data here.
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Get the data here.
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Get the data here.
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Get the data here.
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Read about the meetup here.
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A piece I wrote covering what I can about the state of data journalism (past, present and future) here.
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Read the post.
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Read the post.
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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.
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Read the post.
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You can download th data here.
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I was a speaker at this conference whose theme was data journalism. I was honored to be included in a very impressive line up.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Build my first visualization from scraped data. You can read the post here. ScraperWiki user quickly copied the code and made it better.
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Attended conference. You can read about it here
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You can read the post here
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During a workshop I helped make some small scrapers for an open democracy project for Germany called meine-demokratie
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Attended and helped run ScraperWiki workshop. You can find teh lineup here
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Read about my reflections on programming to find news here
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My reflections on training journalists for the new data driven world. You can read them here
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You can read it here
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You can get the exports here and you'll find a link to the imports.
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Publsihed a post here about a scrpaed twitter account I made for the judicial complaints. Follow @OJCstatements on twitter.
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Download the data here. First excel scraper
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He gave this presentation about prototyping
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Download the data here.
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An experiment but you can check out the code here.
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The former AP foreign correspondent and founder of Storify gave this presentation about entrepreneurial journalism.
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Read it here. My piece on how a data journalist shoulld be a newsroom microcosm for the entrepreneurial journalist.
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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.
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I was one of the many great speakers this year!
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He gave this lecture about web development and new capabilities in the browser and the Open Web.
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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.
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Download the data here.
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Go through the exercises outlined here. This is a copy of what I set up for the CIJ summer school workshop
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Written for OpenDemocracy and longer version on my blog.
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In 2002, Jesse wrote the book The Elements of User Experience. Watch his webinar to the lab here
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My idea spark for the MozNewsLab. You can read about it here
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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
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Tutorial to learn classes turned into a blog post which you can read here
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Mohamed Nanabhay, is an internet entrepreneur and Head of Online at Al Jazeera English. Watch the webinar he gave to the lab here
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Getting some advice from my geeky friends on my MozNewsLab idea. Read about it here
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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
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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
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Gave an interview to DataJournalismBlog which you can watch here
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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
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Read about my proposal for the MozNewsLab here
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Read the post [here](Top 10 Things for getting Started in Data Journalism)
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Answers to a previous tutorial which you can go through here
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Read the blog post here
