Simon Rogers
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When Virtual Reality Meets Data Journalism
Isn’t the best journalism always immersive? Whether it’s Walter Kronkite’s journalistic take on history “You are There” from the 1950s or Declan Walsh’s mobile phone reporting from Syria in June, the best journalism makes you feel like you are part of the story. You care what happens. Virtual Reality is a powerful tool in making journalism more […] → Read More
Can Data Journalism Be Taught?
Click the image to read the whole series. (Public domain image from DARPA) Can you really teach data journalism? It’s a dumb question that I’m soon going to find the answer for: This semester I started teaching at the Berkeley J-School (you can see my syllabus here). There’s no shortage of advice on teaching journalism students. If you believe what you read, young reporters need to learn to… → Read More
Guardian/ICM polls: every one since 1984
Full results on voting intentions going back to the beginning of our polling - plus the trends in the big questions over time → Read More
Animated map: local and EU elections in tweets
How were each of the political parties tweeted about on Thursday 22 May? This map of the UK shows geotagged tweets mentioning each of the major political parties on election day → Read More
FA Cup final 2014 tweets: mapped
Who won the FA Cup final on twitter? Geotagged tweets mentioning FA Cup finalists Arsenal and Hull City has been mapped by Twitter data editor Simon Rogers using CartoDB. The red dots represent Arsenal, while the blue dots represent Hull City. Use the animated map below to see how the FA Cup final was played out in tweets around the world → Read More
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent. → Read More
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent. → Read More
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent
Data journalism only matters when it's transparent. → Read More
How Twitter responded to #NickvNigel - animated map
This animated map by Twitter data editor Simon Rogers shows all the geogtagged tweets in the UK mentioning either Nick Clegg or Nigel Farage on the day of their second EU debate → Read More
Infographics for children: what they can learn from data visualisations
Information graphics and visualisations give us a method to use images to describe a story in a way that we can understand. If children want to comprehend the world around them, infographics can do that, writes Simon Rogers → Read More
Death penalty statistics, country by country
After the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle, the brutality of North Korea's regime has once again come under the international spotlight. In a broader context, is the attention warranted? Find out who uses the death penalty today - and see how it compares to 2007 → Read More
UK inflation since 1948
Inflation in the UK fell to 2.2% in October. Get the full data over time, see how it compares with pay - and understand the new measures → Read More
10 popular myths debunked
We've all heard some of the great half-truths doing the rounds, but how do they square up to reality? → Read More
Dog bites data: how likely are you to get bitten?
One in six of those admitted to hospital for a dog bite is a child aged under 10. See what the data says → Read More
Budget 2013: the government's spending and income visualised
How much money does the UK have coming in this year - and where will the spending be? This visualisation, published in tomorrow's Guardian shows where the big numbers fall → Read More
Syrian refugees: how many are there and where are they?
The humanitarian fallout of the conflict in Syria reaches new proportions as the number of estimated refugees reaches one million → Read More
Italian election results: an interactive guide
Who will win the Italian elections, taking place today? Find out as the results come in → Read More
Mapping Tweets in Africa
Who uses Twitter in Africa - and where are they based? → Read More
All our datasets: the complete index
Lost track of the hundreds of datasets published by the Guardian Datablog since it began in 2009? Thanks to ScraperWiki, this is the ultimate list and resource → Read More
Interest rates in the UK since 1694. Download the data and see it visualised
Interest rates in the UK have been maintained today. Find out just how this compares to rates in the past → Read More