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Creating an interactive point map with custom icons and images
During production weeks at City (in which we produce our own newspaper in print and online), my Interactive Journalism coursemates and I were tasked with trying to combine our digital efforts with...
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London’s domestic violence victims face longest wait for re-housing in five...
Victims of domestic violence in London are facing the longest wait for re-housing in five years, with the average household forced to remain in temporary accommodation for just over two years. The...
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Why Datawrapper is a data visualisation newbie’s saving grace
I created the visualisation below using data compiled from my own data-driven investigation into the rehousing of domestic abuse victims across London. I submitted the resulting story (without the...
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Sourcing data using Freedom of Information requests
Image: Project Freeman For a project at City we had to use the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to unearth non-public data for a story. I was first introduced to FOI while researching a story about...
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Tips from news:rewired on developing data-driven stories
As an official blogger for the news:rewired digital journalism conference in London on Friday 19 April, I attended a talk on data-inspired stories. Speaking on this panel were several prominent...
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What type of visualisation should you use to tell your data-driven story?
The range of data visualisation tools is growing quickly, making choosing which one to use and which style to opt for even trickier. Some tips before you start visualising Remember that you don’t...
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Going digital: why data journalism is only as good as the story it tells
Let me make a confession. Before starting the data journalism module at City I was highly skeptical of this new and somewhat alien way of telling stories. I’ve never been keen on (or particularly good...
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Top ten tweeters about all things data journalism
As a student exploring the world of data-driven storytelling for the first time this year, I have found the advice, experience and practice of others an invaluable aid. At the beginning of the course...
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Interviewed: Claire Miller, senior data journalist at Trinity Mirror
Claire Miller has been a reporter and data journalist for Media Wales since 2010. Featured on my list of top ten tweeters in the field, she has recently been appointed as senior data journalist for...
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Interviewed: David Ottewell, head of the Data Journalism Unit at Trinity Mirror
David Ottewell kindly spared some time to share a few hot data journalism tips with me. Here’s what he had to say… What’s happening with Trinity Mirror’s new Data Journalism Unit? The Data Journalism...
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