blog.ouseful.info
OU/BBC Co-Pros Currently on iPlayer | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2012/03/28/oubbc-co-pros-currently-on-iplayer
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. March 28, 2012. OU/BBC Co-Pros Currently on iPlayer. Given the continued state of presentational disrepair of the OpenLearn What’s On feed, I assume I’m the only person who subscribes to it? Despite its looks, though, I have to say I find it *really useful* for keeping up with OU/BBC co-pros. Might we be able to get the clips locally viewable? As part of the co-pro package? GetJSON...
blog.ouseful.info
Generating d3js Motion Charts from rCharts | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2013/11/04/generating-d3js-motion-charts-from-rcharts
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. November 4, 2013. Generating d3js Motion Charts from rCharts. Remember Gapminder, the animated motion chart popularised by Hans Rosling in his TED Talks and Joy of Stats TV programme? Well it’s back on TV this week in Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population. Nor the Google motion chart equivalent of it (requires Flash? Playing with that rendering on a tablet, I had a few problems ...
blog.ouseful.info
Tinkering | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/category/tinkering
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. June 13, 2016. Querying Panama Papers Neo4j Database Container From a Linked Jupyter Notebook Container. A few weeks ago I posted some quick doodles showing, on the one hand, how to get the Panama Papers data into a simple SQLite database. And in another how to link a neo4j graph database to a Jupyter notebook server using Docker Compose. So here’s my quickstart. File and then run:.
blog.ouseful.info
Problems of Data Quality | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2015/05/09/problems-of-data-quality
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 9, 2015. Problems of Data Quality. One of the advantages of working with sports data, you might have thought, is that. Sports results are typically good quality data. With a recent redesign of the Formula One website, the official online (web) source of results is now the FIA website. Routine Sources, Court Reporting, the Data Beat and Metadata Journalism. Email me (Tony Hirst).
blog.ouseful.info
policy | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/tag/policy-2
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 8, 2015. Routine Sources, Court Reporting, the Data Beat and Metadata Journalism. In The Re-Birth of the “Beat”: A hyperlocal online newsgathering model. Journalism Practice 6.5-6 (2012): 754-765), Murray Dick cites various others to suggest that routine sources are responsible for generating a significant percentage of local news reports:. Continue reading →. Churnalism Times ...
blog.ouseful.info
Kiteflying Around Containers – A Better Alternative to Course VMs? | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2015/05/18/kiteflying-around-containers-a-better-alternative-to-course-vms
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 18, 2015. Kiteflying Around Containers – A Better Alternative to Course VMs? Has also become a thing…. To recap on some of thinking about how we might provide software to students, I was pre-occupied at various times with the following (not necessarily exhaustive) list of considerations:. How could we make sure the students retained access to local copies of all the files they ...
blog.ouseful.info
Whither the Library? | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2015/05/12/whither-the-library
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 12, 2015. As I scanned my feeds this morning, a table in a blog post ( Thoughts on KOS (Part 3): Trends in knowledge organization. Summarising the results from a survey reported in a paywalled academic journal article –. 8211; really wound me up:. My immediate reaction to this was:. So why isn’t cataloguing about metadata? Or indexing, for that matter? Oversight and responsibil...
blog.ouseful.info
data journalism | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/tag/data-journalism
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 8, 2015. Routine Sources, Court Reporting, the Data Beat and Metadata Journalism. In The Re-Birth of the “Beat”: A hyperlocal online newsgathering model. Journalism Practice 6.5-6 (2012): 754-765), Murray Dick cites various others to suggest that routine sources are responsible for generating a significant percentage of local news reports:. Continue reading →. November 5, 2011.
blog.ouseful.info
Things I Take for Granted #287 – Grabbing Stuff from Web Form Drop Down Lists | OUseful.Info, the blog...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2015/05/19/things-i-take-for-granted-287-grabbing-stuff-from-web-form-drop-down-lists
OUseful.Info, the blog. Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. May 19, 2015. Things I Take for Granted #287 – Grabbing Stuff from Web Form Drop Down Lists. Over the years, I’ve collected lots of little hacks for tinkering with various data sets. Here’s an example…. A form on a web page with country names that map to code values:. Kiteflying Around Containers – A Better Alternative to Course VMs? Email me (Tony Hirst). Join 1,684 other followers.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT