Good data sources and methods

by Nils Mulvad on 2012/11/17

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Scraping for data

by Nils Mulvad on 2012/11/17

Tools and tricks for extracting data from the web.

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Covering events and investigative journalism melts together

november 12, 2012
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Gathering and archiving information from social media, fact-checking, crowdsourcing, using big datasets and interactive graphics are all methods to be shared and developed both in the coverage of events and investigative journalism.

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A nearby storm to hit journalism education

juni 18, 2012

Education in journalism will get the same turmoil as the media have been through for the last 20 years. It begins now in big scale.

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Experiences from Data Harvest Festival in Europa

maj 18, 2012
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Close to 100 journalists, vizualisers and hackers gathered data and shared methods 6th to 8th of May 2012 in Brussels.

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Fish subsidy data published – and a new analysis

november 17, 2011

Fishsubsidy.org: New online database of €1.1 billion in EU fisheries subsidies; concerns about declining data standards Fishsubsidy.org, the transparency project which in 2009 launched an online database of EU fisheries subsidies from 1994 to 2006, has launched a new database of payments under the European Fisheries Fund, from 2007 to 2010. The fisheries subsidy database [...]

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Hand-outs and plans for data track at Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev

oktober 9, 2011

Program for the conference Hands-on training Sarah Cohen on timelines Internet Albrecht Ude: Surfing anonymously and unfiltered Albrecht Ude: Searching people Yahoo Pipes Paul Bradshaw on Yahoo Pipes http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/07/16/how-to-create-basic-mashups-with-yahoo-pipes/ http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/12/18/how-to-create-a-custom-meta-search-in-yahoo-pipes/ Excel-training: Luuk Sengers and John Bones: Excel 1 Luuk Sengers and John Bones: Excel 2 Extra material from Jennifer LaFleur Google Fusion: Jennifer LaFleurs material [...]

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EU-Court: Publishing of farmsubsidies aginst human rights

november 11, 2010

It conflicts with human rights to publish names and amounts on recipients of EU farm subsidies. This has the European Court of Justice decided. Germany and Ireland have now shut down their websites, but the information can be found on farmsubsidy.org. Today it’s hard to tell the consequenses of the decission. See Jack Thurstons, Brigitte [...]

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Farmsubsidy.org release new data and are totally restructured

november 7, 2010

Farmsubsidy.org has released information on farm subsidies for all 27 EU memberstates for free and made the database searchable in a simple way. Danish payments of EU farm subsidies got journalist Kjeld Hansen and I access to in 2004. Several stories followed in Danish medias. It was a breakthrough, because it was the first country in EU [...]

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Crowdsourcing in investigative journalism

oktober 14, 2010

In practice we can divide crowdsourcing according to the part of the journalistic process where the crowd is helping, and which tools are used to organize this help. This gives us a matrix to use for analyzing projects. You can also define projects on the basis of other categories, but here I use the journalistic [...]

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