All the data you can eat
The all-singing, all-dancing machine learning library, TensorFlow, just hit version 2, with a host of changes: tight integration of Keras; eager execution by default; and “Pythonic function execution”, whatever that Continue Reading
An argument can be made that crime numbers and statistics can make victims faceless and make the story less impactful. In this case, the victims — those of child pornography Continue Reading
Glenn Moncrieff’s act of split-viewing today’s Google Maps images of Cape Town with aerial photography from before Apartheid’s resettlement of “non-whites” creates a powerful art. Reminiscent of Johnny Miller’s work, it’s Continue Reading
The final flights by collapsing travel agency Thomas Cook are elegantly visualised by Bloomberg, including the very last one from Orlando to Manchester. But the visualisation doesn’t tell the story of Continue Reading
On the scale of one to nerd, examining a data set of 350 million SSL certificates blows right off the chart. And yet even in this seemingly dry dataset you’ll Continue Reading
India’s booming population needs one thing parts of the country are desperately short of — water. Due to poor dam development, the country relies heavily on groundwater, and many regions Continue Reading
India’s booming population needs one thing parts of the country are desperately short of — water. Due to poor dam development, the country relies heavily on groundwater, and many parts Continue Reading
28 – 30 OctoberWits University, Johannesburg This year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference’s speaker list is top-notch. Apart from the usual investigative journo crowd, there’s plenty of data journalism happening: Al Continue Reading
26 – 29 SeptemberHamburg, Germany The Global Investigative Journalism Conference gets going in the land of currywurst and Fritz Cola, and has data journ sprinkled liberally throughout with a whole Continue Reading
The concept is pretty simple: A data project boilerplate designed by AP that’s meant to get your R or Python data project set up for success. It uses Cookiecutter for the template, Continue Reading
