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20 useful data sources for reporting transport stories
Looking for that bit of context to add some scale and some accuracy to a transport story you’re covering? Interhacktives has you covered!
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Local data goes big – interview with David Ottewell
David Ottewell is head of the biggest data journalism team in Britain. The Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror) data unit has been running for more than five years, with its stories published in 240 local papers, as well as national titles like the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People. Ottewell, spoke
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Megan Lucero interview: 'all journalism will eventually be data journalism'
Hailing from a tiny Californian town, where the main mode of transport takes the literal measurement of horse power, Megan Lucero is quite the outlier. The energetic 27-year-old – who was remarkably promoted from intern to data editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in just four years
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19 ways to find great data: tips from leading light Marianne Bouchart
Queen of data Marianne Bouchart shared her top data portals - and a few tricks - at this month's news:rewired conference. Bouchart is Communications Director and Data Journalism Awards Manager at the Global Editors' Network. She founded Hei-Da.org, a not-for-profit specialising in data-driven
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Interview: Hera Hussain on the need for open data
Hera Hussain is Communities and Partnerships Manager at OpenCorporates, the world’s largest open companies database. When she isn’t busy organising hackathons and liberating corporate data from across the internet, she works with the social entrepreurship movement MakeSense and empowers women to achieve independence through Chayn. She spoke to
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#Flashhacks: an evening on company data and corporate networks
It was over donuts and sushi that Interhacktives found out more about corporate networks and how to access company data. Last Wednesday, a pack of 13 of us attended the meetup "Flash Hacks: Map the Banks", an initiative by the London-based organisation Open Corporates that aims to
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Eastern Europe and Latin America hit the spotlight in FOIs, but media still makes the UK influential
Countries that had dictators in power until very recently are now prominent when it comes to new Freedom of Information Acts. The UK system trusts heavily on the press to work. This is the opinion of Fabiano Angelico, a specialist on transparency and a Guardian contributor. As a master in
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Interview: Aine McGuire of ScraperWiki
Aine McGuire, the chief marketing officer of ScraperWiki, talks to Sam Creighton about how data is changing the journalism industry