Parke Wilde raised an important issue on his U.S. Food Policy blog last week: As public data becomes more accessible, we should focus on ways to pull together disparate bodies of data.Parke explains how he used data from the Environment Working Group and CSPAN to show overlap of federal farm aid and campaign contributions.
The challenge, […]
In an important post earlier this month, Adrian argued that news organizations need to move away from the “story-centric worldview.”
Instead of grinding information they collect into unstructured stories, he said, news sites should build operations that collect structured data and repurpose it in as many useful ways as possible.
He’s exactly right, and I’d add one […]
At Faneuil Media we often use maps to make data more accessible to readers. Because it’s so simple and people are familiar with it, we frequently use Google’s mapping platform.
Unfortunately, Google’s API doesn’t make it easy to map shapes and areas. It’s simple to map specific points, like the location of crimes, but not areas, […]
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