We’re presenting today at “Investigating (with) Big Data“, a one day symposium being held at Cardiff University by the Digital Culture Network. Our talk, “Digital Needles in the Data Haystack” examines the use of data by news organisations, focusing on the challenges they face when carrying out investigations with increasingly large volumes of data. We […]
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Scraping the Assembly
Glyn is currently teaching the first-semester module on Data Journalism. As part of this, students need to complete a data investigation project. One of the students is looking at the expenses of Welsh Assembly Members. These are all freely available online, but not in an easy to manipulate form. According to the Assembly they’d be happy to […]
Sustainable Software Institute – Research Data Visualisation Workshop
Last week I gave a talk and delivered a hands on session at the Sustainable Software Institute’s ‘Research Data Visualisation Workshop‘ which was held at Manchester University. It was a really engaging event, with a lot of good discussion on the issues surrounding data visualisation. Professor Jessie Kennedy from Edinburgh Napier University gave a great keynote looking […]
Empty Properties: simple choropleth maps with leaflet.js
We’re still working on looking at empty properties around Wales, and so while we wait for the FOI request results to come in, I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of basic mapping. Normally, if I want to create a choropleth I reach straight for d3 and my collection of topojson, but […]
Visualising data – first try to get the information #foia
We’re currently looking at how many empty properties there are across Wales. The students and staff are in the process of using the Freedom of Information act to get data sets as part of our sessions around data journalism and visualising data. (Martin recently did a post looking at different technologies for wrangling the data […]