Aine Mcguire Newsroom 360 - Data Journalism Day

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Talk by Aine Mcguire as part of NR360 Data Journalism panel discussion.

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With @ainemcguire ScraperWiki

Newsroom 360 Data Day

the place to liberate & wrangle

DATA

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not so big DATA

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So what do we do?● Collect data (Excel/CSV/PDF/html/css)

● Clean data● Analyse data● Visualise data

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scraping ('skreɪpɪŋ) n.converting data from some

horrible useless format, into a cleaner, more useful format.

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NOTAMs

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Where is Mr Obama going? Or Mr Biden and other VIPs?

US is fighting a war on FIRE

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5 yr old goes ‘potty’ at Devon and Somerset Fire Service

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Data Provenance

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With a little help from ScraperWikiLiberate the data!