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Don't Miss, My Corona

NHS gives its data away to some dodgy orgs

The Coronavirus has given the NHS the excuse to give its data to private firms to play with. One firm that is helping them -- out of the goodness of its black heart -- is Palantir, the CIA-funded group that helped Trump steal an election, used data to sniff out illegal immigrants for ICE, and did...

Jason Norwood-Young

yesterday at 08:14 am

Don't Miss, My Corona

A shiny new Covid-19 data portal for Latin America

The new Covid-19 Observatory for the Containment of Covid-19 in the Americas isn't your normal coronavirus dashboard. There's no R values or logarithmic expressions of death rates here. Rather, this project from Miami University is looking at the state of public policy and the movement of people ...

2 days ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Silver linings

Lockdowns are lifting, but if the long term prognosis for coronavirus-related regulations and restrictions has you feeling down, maybe Happy Data can offer a pick-me-up. It's a project which aims to collect data around positive outcomes of the covid crisis, like an increase in volunteering and a ...

8 days ago

The number of the beast

You don't have to have experienced the Great Migration up close to know that the annual manoeuvres of wild grazer herds is a thing of both great beauty and complete wanton destruction. To understand the former and limit the latter, Australian scientists are embarking on the "world's largest satel...

8 days ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Simulating our way out of Covid-19

Of the Coronavirus explorables, this is by far my favourite. On the one hand, it does what many of the other simulators do -- gives you a curved graph that we're all becoming very familiar with. But it takes this so much further, simulating the effects of increased hygiene, social distancing, tra...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Plandumbic

ProPublica investigative journalist Marshall Allen speaks to both the Plandemic filmmaker Mikki Willis and interviewee Judy Mikovits for their comments, because that's what a journalist does.

Jason Norwood-Young

3 weeks ago

csv,conf, virtually

If there's a positive to the Coronavirus, it's made conference attendance equitable. The most important open data conference on the annual calendar, csv,conf, went virtual this year, and apart from the difficulties in scheduling it at a decent time for everyone, it went pretty damn smoothly. I'm ...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 weeks ago

Every aircrash this century visualised

Longing for the days we can return to zooting about the globe in our flying cigar cases? Maybe this will dampen your enthusiasm - Bavyajeet Singh and Vikrant Dewangan have put together a few charts showing just how frequent air crashes are and when - over the course of a flight - they have happen...

3 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

It was the salmon mousse. And the canapes. And the sausage rolls

Japanese broadcaster NHK has put together a little visual aid showing why large gatherings are a bad idea when there's coronavirus around: at a mock buffet, one diner has fluorescent paint squirted on his palm. During the meal a blacklight is turned on to show just where that paint has spread... ...

3 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Explaining the Coronavirus chart to your kids (and parents)

You may think your logarithmic Corona-chart that starts at 100 infections makes perfect sense, but go show it to your mom and see how she interprets it. Or, send her this video from Vox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3Mlj3MQ_Q

Jason Norwood-Young

4 weeks ago

Don't Miss, Finally

When map fiction becomes on-the-ground fact

When cartographers aren't sneaking hidden pics into maps, they're making up fake place names in order to trap other cartographers who may plagiarise their work -- known as "paper towns". But in the case of one US paper town, Agloe, the little bit of cartographic crypto turned into a real place wh...

Jason Norwood-Young

4 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Deaths from “unnatural causes” in South Africa are a third lower than normal

The Financial Times has a great piece this morning updating its look at the impact of Covid-19 on national death rates. For most countries covered, it's pretty big. Look: But look at South Africa - the chart actually shows a decline in expected mortality rates for this time of year. It's not surp...

4 weeks ago

100 maps of Gauteng and more

The Gauteng Regional City Observatory (GCRO) is an unsung hero of South African data collection and analysis. Quietly, it gets on with their work, surveying, reporting and analysisng South Africa's economic heartlands. Occasionally, their work reaches the mainstream media (notably its identificat...

a month ago

Eat the rich

Enjoy scrolling? Enjoy feeling outraged? Enjoy solving the world's problems? Warm up that mousewheel and head on over to 1-pixel-wealth, which lets you scroll through Jeff Bezos' unimaginable wealth, with each 10 pixels worth $5 million. And once you've gotten through Bezos' $139 billion, you can...

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Run, South Africa, run!

It's Lockdown Lifts day (part one) here in sunny South Africa, where 50% of Naked Data is based. And while the stay-at-home restrictions don't change an awful lot for many people, they do bring the blessed relief of being able to walk or run for leisure in the great outdoors for the first time in...

a month ago

Book learnin', Don't Miss

Don’t be fooled: The journalist’s guide to foiling fake news

Craig Silverman has wrangled some of the industry's top fact-checkers and myth-busters to produce the latest version of the Verification Handbook For Disinformation and Media Manipulation, a veritable trove of methodologies, practices and examples to help the journalist separate fact from crap.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

The pain of merging datasets

It sounds so simple: combine various datasets to get a list of healthcare facilities in South Africa. Can't be that hard, right? Afrimapr went down this road, and has suffered so that we don't have to.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, Umbilical Ruminations

Microsoft’s open data play

Whether Microsoft's open data play is an honest attempt to reduce digital divides or a Trojan horse for its AI and Power BI remains to be seen.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Covid-19 – The Game

People of the Pandemic is a nifty Coronavirus explorable, but with a clever little twist - you play with (or against, depending on your perspective) 19 other real life people. It's a great way of seeing how the decisions you and those around you make affect the spread of a virus dramatically.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

How Reuters is using AI for articles

Polis' JournalismAI has a nice interview with Viktoriia Samatova, the MD of the Applied Innovations Team at Reuters Technology, who is building crazy proof of concept machines that can write the news. Samatova's CV is incredibly impressive - her background is in finance and economics as well as m...

a month ago