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How transparent is the data on OpenCharities?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Claire Gilmore

OpenCharities gathers financial data from 319,851 non-profit organisations. However, it’s difficult to draw consistent observations from the data available. Some profiles are incomplete or out-of-date while others include a full financial breakdown. The only figures that are disclosed across the … Continue reading →

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Data journalism: an invitation?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Claire Gilmore

Data journalism can be summed up in three steps: finding the data (more and more publicly available these days), finding a way to read all the data comprehensively (using algorithms, graphics, interactive charts, tagging etc) and publishing what the data reveals. … Continue reading →

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Why is data journalism so relevant?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Alexandra Lawton

Data driven journalism or, ‘data journalism’, is to me, what seems to be a technical platform that takes large sources of information, filters it to be more comprehensive and imprints it into the media for it to be more viable … Continue reading →

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What does Data journalism mean?

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Julia Greenaway

Data journalism makes facts and figures more accessible. Turing information into graphs, diagrams and pictures makes the information a lot easier to understand. Especially with comparable information. When I think of data journalism I think of Wikileaks, and the data … Continue reading →

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