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All posts by nickevershed. A browser plugin for verification of images on twitter? July 21, 2014. After big disasters or otherwise high profile news events there’s always a tonne of images doing the rounds on social media. There’s the ones that are actually from the event, and then there’s some which are ‘fake’, either real images but from a different event, or photoshopped. Or Google’s reverse image search. So you could tell if something was old before retweeting. The downside is you lose the immediacy ...

The underground houses of Coober Pedy | Nick Evershed

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The underground houses of Coober Pedy. January 11, 2013. A while back I went out to the desert town of Coober Pedy with a friend to chase a story on our own time. While our initial story fell through, we shot some interviews with some of the locals about their unique houses. Check out the video. Australia’s richest towns revealed. How big is this fire? HINT: It is pretty big). I’m a journalist/programmer/person from Australia. Mostly I work for The Guardian. What are the Nauru files?

Visualising Australia’s bushfires | Nick Evershed

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Visualising Australia’s bushfires. February 6, 2013. In January 2013, Australia experienced a severe heatwave which lead to a devastating month for bushfires. We wanted to show the vast scale and extent of bushfire season in Australia. 8211; these are usually indicative of bushfires, with a few exceptions for man-made hotspots. Check it out here. Teen deaths devastating communities. I’m a journalist/programmer/person from Australia. Mostly I work for The Guardian. What are the Nauru files? The Nauru file...

Interactive | Nick Evershed

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The extent of online gambling in Australia. April 8, 2013. A pretty quick look at the growth of online gambling, this story uses modelling from a report prepared by KPMG. 16 MB PDF) for a Government review of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. I showed the predicted growth of online gambling as a line graph, but added a feature that compares it with growth in conventional gambling by re-drawing the axis – this is a good way to compare two datasets that are orders of magnitude different. March 28, 2013.

Data | Nick Evershed

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The extent of online gambling in Australia. April 8, 2013. A pretty quick look at the growth of online gambling, this story uses modelling from a report prepared by KPMG. 16 MB PDF) for a Government review of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. I showed the predicted growth of online gambling as a line graph, but added a feature that compares it with growth in conventional gambling by re-drawing the axis – this is a good way to compare two datasets that are orders of magnitude different. March 28, 2013.