Live data is the next big thing, according to Martin Stabe of the Financial Times. But what is really important is making sure those figures make sense
#newsrw: Heather Brooke – ‘How do any journalists in the UK do their job?’
Getting hold of meaningful data is the great battle facing British journalists, Heather Brooke said in her keynote speech at news:rewired – noise to signal. The Freedom of Information campaigner urged journalists to challenge the ‘unhelpful attitude’ of public records being withheld
Thoughts from our speakers: The Guardian’s Simon Rogers on the future of datajournalism
In the run up to news:rewired we’ll be publishing some thoughts from our speakers on the subject of their session. In this post we talk to Guardian datablog and datastore editor Simon Rogers about what 2011 holds for datajournalism