Tips for teaching/training on data skills
(photo of Ignasi, Olu and Ketty by Heather Leson, July 2014 (CC-by)) You probably have a skill or knowledge that others would love to acquire… but teaching can be intimidating.…
Hacking the world’s most complex election system: part 2
[Ed. Note: The School of Data was recently in Bosnia. This blog post is the 2nd in the series. See the first post by Codrina (School of Data Fellow).] After…
Using Data Journalism to probe economics in the West Bank
Weeks before the current conflict erupted between Israel and Hamas, twenty Palestinian journalists came together in Ramallah for three days to use data to untangle the economic reality for Palestinians.…
Seven Ways to Create a Storymap
If you have a story that unfolds across several places over a period of time, storymaps can provide an engaging interactive medium with which to tell the story. This post…
Open Government countries ranking 2013 (based on OGP data)
This is a guest post by Alberto Abella, head of the Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge, and originally appeared at gobernamos.com. Open Government (ogov) is possibly next democracy’s milestone. Should…
Hacking the world’s most complex election system: part 1
School of Data Fellow Codrina and Michael spent their week hacking the Bosnian election system. This is their report back: Elections are one of the most data-driven events in contemporary…
Working With Data in the Browser Using python – coLaboratory
IPython notebooks are attracting a lot of interest in the world of data wrangling at the moment. With the pandas code library installed, you can quickly and easily get a…
4 Network Visualisation Tools
Network visualisation has become an important tool in the armoury of the data wrangler. An increasing volume of research and journalism is using network analysis and visualisation to gain insight…
Revisiting OKFestival 2014
Hard to believe that a full month has passed since the end of a fantastic OKFestival 2014. While our team is hard at work following up on all the great…
Data Journalism in Developing Countries: Getting Beyond the Hype
One group visualizes when it is best to convey data findings over radio instead of charts depending on the audience’s data literacy and reliance on traditional media for information. …