The Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York yesterday to recognise the best US journalism of 2015. In the 100th year of the contest, 14 prize…
In The Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham highlights an interesting example of how data visualisation can be misleading when colours schemes are used inappropriately. Taking data on US population…
This week the News Impact Summit came to DCU’s Helix bringing with it some of the news industry’s most innovative leaders. Focusing on some of…
Storyful’s Irish Election Open Database is now live. The database, featuring information on every candidate running in the 2016 general election, was developed during an…
An iPhone app alerting users to US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia has been removed by Apple. Metadata+ was created by Josh Begley; a…
#foj15 day two continued the themes of Risks, Threats and Opportunities. With a huge line-up of speakers and tweets coming from simultaneous presentations and discussions,…
Content may still be king of publishing but data is queen of digital media. This was the message to take away from NCI’s Go Further…
For the journalist who has never worked with large bodies of data (datasets), the act of ‘data journalism’ can sound daunting and complicated but it…