Well, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I set myself a challenge to complete the Python course on Codecademy and I did it – I completed the Python track and it was fantastic! I was given the opportunity to put my newly found Python skills in to action this week as I needed […]
Well, it’s been a while since my last update and a lot has been happening with this blog behind the scenes (bye, bye 1&1 hosting and hello to the wonderful Squirrel Hosting) and with myself. In short, I am going in to hospital for an operation on 6th June which is a little bit nerve-wracking, exciting […]
For the final week of the MOOC, we have been given the task of producing an infographic of our own – this means choosing a topic, gathering the information and presenting an idea to show the information in graphic form. As my previous sketches have been for interactive infographics, I wanted to give a static […]
Our goal this week was to think about what kind of interactive graphic we could create based on the data used in the Guardian’s piece about unemployment in the US -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/sep/08/us-unemployment-obama-jobs-speech-state-map There is a lot of data used behind the scenes of this graphic which is great but is also slightly frustrating. For example, […]
The goal for this week was to think about how an interactive graphic based on a particular report by Publish What You Fund, and also published in a Guardian blog, would look. The data in question relates to how transparent major donor organisations are with their own data and so each organisation has been rated using a distinct set of […]
Source material: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/06/us/politics/convention-word-counts.html A comparison of how often speakers at the two presidential nominating conventions used different words and phrases, based on an analysis of transcripts from the Federal News Service. Although I very much like the look of this graphic at first glance I feel it includes too much information and too many layers of abstraction […]
About a month ago, I signed up to a new MOOC offered by the Knight Center for Journalism. The course is run by Alberto Cairo and is exactly the sort of course I’ve been after for a while. As an aside, Higher Education institutions in the US seem to be way ahead of the game […]
