GDELT: a big data history of life, the universe and everything
www.guardian.co.uk
on 04/12/2013
Excerpt: Everybody is searching for bigger and bigger data: how about this? A comprehensive list of every event in human history. It matters because historians have long feared that we live in a digital dark ages - where our history will have vanished when future generations try to look back on these electronic decades. That is the purpose of GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone. Primarily set up by Kalev Leetaru at the University of Illinois it is literally a giant list: over 250m events in over 300 categories from riots and protests to diplomatic exchanges and peace appeals. Crucially, it contains latitude and longitude for every event - all of them are now geotagged to city level.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Six ways data journalism is making sense of the world, around the world
radar.oreilly.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: When I wrote that Radar was investigating data journalism and asked for your favorite examples of good work, we heard back from around the world. I received emails from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Canada and Italy that featured data visualization, explored the role of data in government accountability, and shared how open data can revolutionize environmental reporting. A tweet pointed me to a talk about how R is being used in the newsroom. Another tweet linked to relevant interviews on social science and the media:. @digiphile Two interesting academic interviews re: data journalism we did recently: journalistsresource. org/reference/rese… & journalistsresource.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Data, Data Journalism
Home - census.ire.org
census.ire.org
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Can vary in size but averages 4,000 people. Designed to remain relatively stable across decades to allow statistical comparisons. Boundaries defined by local officials using Census Bureau rules. Places
1. What most people call cities or towns. A locality incorporated under state law that acts as a local government. 2. An unincorporated area that is well-known locally. Defined by state officals under Census Bureau rules and called a "census designated place. " "CDP" is added to the end of name. Counties (parishes in LA)
The primary subdivisions of states. To cover the full country, this includes Virginia's cities and Baltimore, St.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Very cool example of how you can take big data sets and make them easier to access and use by non-developers like journalists.
Tags: Data Journalism, Tools, US Census Data
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Six ways data journalism is making sense of the world, around the world
radar.oreilly.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: When I wrote that Radar was investigating data journalism and asked for your favorite examples of good work, we heard back from around the world. I received emails from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Canada and Italy that featured data visualization, explored the role of data in government accountability, and shared how open data can revolutionize environmental reporting. A tweet pointed me to a talk about how R is being used in the newsroom. Another tweet linked to relevant interviews on social science and the media:. @digiphile Two interesting academic interviews re: data journalism we did recently: journalistsresource. org/reference/rese… & journalistsresource.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Data, Data Journalism
Home - census.ire.org
census.ire.org
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Can vary in size but averages 4,000 people. Designed to remain relatively stable across decades to allow statistical comparisons. Boundaries defined by local officials using Census Bureau rules. Places
1. What most people call cities or towns. A locality incorporated under state law that acts as a local government. 2. An unincorporated area that is well-known locally. Defined by state officals under Census Bureau rules and called a "census designated place. " "CDP" is added to the end of name. Counties (parishes in LA)
The primary subdivisions of states. To cover the full country, this includes Virginia's cities and Baltimore, St.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Very cool example of how you can take big data sets and make them easier to access and use by non-developers like journalists.
Tags: Data Journalism, Tools, US Census Data
Excerpt: Can vary in size but averages 4,000 people. Designed to remain relatively stable across decades to allow statistical comparisons. Boundaries defined by local officials using Census Bureau rules. Places 1. What most people call cities or towns. A locality incorporated under state law that acts as a local government. 2. An unincorporated area that is well-known locally. Defined by state officals under Census Bureau rules and called a "census designated place. " "CDP" is added to the end of name. Counties (parishes in LA) The primary subdivisions of states. To cover the full country, this includes Virginia's cities and Baltimore, St.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Very cool example of how you can take big data sets and make them easier to access and use by non-developers like journalists.
Tags: Data Journalism, Tools, US Census Data
