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2/2/2012

A look inside the EU budget and what the numbers mean (Guardian Data Blog)

As part of their Europa series, the Guardian Data Blog recently posted an article about the EU Budget, focusing mainly on what the EU spends and where…
 

5/12/2011

How Spending Stories spots errors in public spending

How public funds should be spent is often controversial. Information about how that money has already been spent should not be ambiguous at all. People…
 

2/12/2011

How the LRA Crisis Tracker helps prevent atrocities in Africa

Since 2009, Invisible Children and Resolve have been working together on the LRA Crisis Tracker; a project that makes information about attacks by the…
 

1/12/2011

‘The English allotment lottery’ (Guardian Data Blog)

The Guardian DataBlog published an article on 10 November 2011 about allotment waiting lists based on data gathered from hundreds of Councils in the United…
 

21/10/2011

‘Groundbreaking data tracks carbon emissions back to their source’ (Guardian Environment Blog)

A new scientific paper allows us to see which countries extracted the fossil fuels burned to support lifestyles in other countries.
 

13/10/2011

‘The future of UK aid’ - Interactive visualisation from the Guardian

In this interactive visualisation the Guardian Data Blog explores where and on what the UK will spend its aid budget over the next five years.
 

21/9/2011

RegioHack: uncovering local stories with data

Dutch regional newspapers launch data journalism project RegioHack.
 

12/9/2011

Data Driven Journalism In A Box: What do you think needs to be in it?

We’re currently organising a session on Data-Driven Journalism in a Box at the Mozilla Festival 2011, and we want your input!
 

29/8/2011

The French crowdsourcing experiment: the price of water (Prix de l’Eau)

In March 2011 a crowdsourcing experiment was set up to gain more transparency in one of France’s least transparent markets, the water market.