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Digging Olympic Data at Londinium MMXII
This is a guest post by Makoto Inoue, one of the organisers of this weekend’s Londinium MMXII hackathon. The Olympics! Only a few days to go until seemingly every news camera on the planet is pointed at the East End … Continue reading
Three hundred thousand tonnes of gold
On 2 July 2012, the US Government debt to the penny was quoted at $15,888,741,858,820.66. So I wrote this scraper to read the daily US government debt for every day back to 1996. Unfortunately such a large number overflows the … Continue reading
5 yr old goes ‘potty’ at Devon and Somerset Fire Service (Emergencies and Data Driven Stories)
It’s 9:54am in Torquay on a Wednesday morning: One appliance from Torquays fire station was mobilised to reports of a child with a potty seat stuck on its head. On arrival an undistressed two year old female was discovered with a toilet … Continue reading
Posted in opendata, Scrapers
Tagged data, html, javascript, open data, scraper, scrapers, views
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International Data Journalism Awards….deadline fast approaching..(10th April 2012)
Everybody is talking and trying to do ‘data journalism’ and the first ever International Data Journalism Awards have been established to recognise the huge effort that people are making in this field. It’s a great opportunity to showcase your work. … Continue reading
Posted in journalism
Tagged big data, computer assisted reporting, creative media, data, data driven journalism, journalism, media
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Fine set of graphs at the Office of National Statistics
It’s difficult to keep up. I’ve just noticed a set of interesting interactive graphs over at the Office of National Statistics (UK). If the world is about people, then the most fundamental dataset of all must be: Where are the … Continue reading
Happy New Year and Happy New York!
We are really pleased to announce that we will be hosting our very first US two day Journalism Data Camp event in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and supported by the Knight Foundation on … Continue reading
Posted in events
Tagged big data, data, data driven journalism, data-driven, New York Digital, PHP, R, ruby
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‘Big Data’ in the Big Apple
My colleague @frabcus captured the main theme of Strata New York #strataconf in his most recent blog post. This was our first official speaking engagement in the USA as a Knight News Challenge 2011 winner. Here is my twopence worth! … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, Data Analysis, data scientist, Database, Oreilly, Oreilly Media, Statistics
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Start Talking to Your Data – Literally!
Because ScraperWiki has a SQL database and an API with SQL extraction, I can SQL inject (haha!) straight into the API URL and use the JSON output. So what does all that mean? I scraped the CSV files of Special … Continue reading
ScraperWiki goes on the Records at The Texas Tribune
Here at ScraperWiki, we’ve got a good eye for data. Not just structuring, formatting and quality, but also where data can tell stories (hence the addition of views to the site). The decision to put a scraper of the Texas … Continue reading
