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 […]
Since about the middle of last week, the Oracle server in our dev environment had been reporting “ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found” intermittently. Not having much time to look at it (and not being much of an Oracle DBA), I found restarting the Oracle server made it go away for a day or so. […]
Unit testing in managed languages such as Java and C# is easy. The general theory is that you create a Test annotation and apply that to your test functions. Next, you create a series of assert functions that throw an AssertFailed exception if an assertion doesn’t match what you expect. Finally, create a test runner […]
