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Interview: Dr James Cheshire on the problem with "clickbait" data journalism

“I think there’s a lot of infographics out there that are really a bit rubbish.” So says Dr James Cheshire, one of the co-authors of  “London: The Information Capital”, a new book featuring data visualisations and infographics centred round the UK’s capital. A lecturer at University College

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The best places to get your data

Best places to get your data For many beginners getting into data and what are the best places to get your data , the first stumbling block is actually accessing the information you want. Before you’ve started to tell the story, and before you can even get your teeth into

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6 sites that show why data is beta

New to data journalism and keen to learn but unsure about the kind of stories you could uncover with numbers? Well worry not because the Interhacktives have collected the examples of experts in action so you don't have to. Here's a roundup in no particular order

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What's on Reddit's front page?

We go behind data scraped from the front page of Reddit - what does it tell us about the online super-community?

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Interview with Abraham Thomas, co-founder and head of data at Quandl

We sit down with Quandl's co-founder and head of data Abraham Thomas about his project.

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Interview with data visualiser Ri Liu

We speak to Ri Liu about the importance of design in telling interactive stories.

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How To... Visualise the 'Healthy Life Expectancy' Disparity

A quick and hopefully not too depressing look at the disparity between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the EU.

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Simon Rogers interview: 'Who cares if I'm still a journalist?'

Interhacktives sat down with Simon Rogers, a veritable giant of data journalism who founded the Guardian's Datablog before moving over to Twitter to manage the site's vast quantities of data.

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Pop Culture and Data: The Best Visualisations

Here are some of our favourite pop-culture data visualisations from the past year, to illustrate how versatile data visualisations can be.

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Interview with FiveThirtyEight's Walter Hickey

Walter Hickey is part of the data super-group working on the re-launched FiveThirtyEight. Joe Hall asks if it's really possible to use numbers to explore our favourite films and restaurants.

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Carl Bialik interview: 'Any data set has eureka potential'

We spoke with Carl Bialik, a writer for Nate Silver‘s new website FiveThirtyEight, and formerly The Numbers Guy for WSJ.

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Interview with Kiln's Duncan Clark

Duncan Clark, founder of design studio Kiln, tells Aleksandra Wisniewska how they go about their projects