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DataMinerUK

@DataMinerUK

Data Journalist at @TheTimes. Interested in all things #ddj and #opendata. Opinions are my own. Get in contact if you have #data that needs digging.

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Joined October 2008
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My keynote from #jpd14 - "News of the web and not just on the web" - vimeo.com/93354052
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So happy to catch up with so many amazing people at #mozfest2015 @gridinoc @maboa @haddadme @annabelchurch @brianboyer @blejman
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This is what I stayed in work 12hrs from 11pm on election night for xitter.gq/StefioCeccon/status/59…
Stefano (@StefioCeccon) profile pictureStefano@StefioCeccon8 May 2015
We applied #MachineLearning to find the strongest drivers behind the #GE2015 results so far @timesredbox #datamatters
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@bluetooth_mdw can you send me a link to the BlueTooth shield used in the arduino demo?
@bluetooth_mdw I was at your talk w/ @WWCLondon Can you send me link for the startup bluetooth smart kit with a shield and a phone app demo?
Admiring the octokitty stickers on Matt McQuaid's (from @github) laptop at #transcode. Storm trooper octokitty is awesome
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@charlierguo (from our '14 batch) just launched Unscalable, a book on "doing things that don't scale." Upvote on PH! producthunt.com/posts/unscal…
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Interesting book by @charlierguo on early-stage growth & 1st 100 customers. Pre-order @inkshares (via @dataminerUK) inkshares.com/projects/unsca…
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Winter deaths in context: Average weekly deaths in Eng&Wales since 1999 ow.ly/IOX3u
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These charts show you which countries own most of the United States' foreign debt | GlobalPost globalpost.com/dispatch/news… via @GlobalPost
Avoiding a common mistake with time series data via @edd svds.com/post/avoiding-commo… Excellent read, more of this please SV Data Science! – at Galway, Ireland
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Quadrant: find and chart economic and financial data: tps://buff.ly/15VHwbF #dataviz #ddj
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How to make tile maps without using the Mercator projection (via @driven_by_data) vis4.net/blog/posts/no-more-…
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Python 3.5 to include type hinting ow.ly/GZj63
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How is the fall in oil prices affecting the UK economy? ow.ly/GYV9D
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Neil Saunders@neilfws9 Dec 2014
Just to demonstrate that eyes/brains compare heights better than areas: numbers 1-20 as pie and bar #rstats
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Mike Bostock@mbostock8 Dec 2014
D3 3.5 is now available! Named transitions, interrupt events, rounded & padded arcs, and more. github.com/mbostock/d3/relea… #d3js
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PeterBale@PeterBale5 Dec 2014
Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell says he's about to publish new secrets on Echelon surveillance net #LoganCIJ14 @publici @ICIJorg
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What's a cover? "I think of it as the homepage of a magazine."
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OpenNews Announces Its 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellows | Idea Lab | PBS pbs.org/idealab/2014/10/open… via @pbsmediashift

OpenNews Announces Its 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellows - MediaShift

We’ve been looking for Knight-Mozilla Fellows for four years now, and so you begin to notice patterns during the process. There’s that moment when you worry that there won’t be enough applicants, and...

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