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2009

#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation. Journalism.co.uk report on the first instance of a Guardian story that was driven by an external developer’s work with data originally released on our Datablog.

# 9th April 2009, 10:57 am / openplatform, guardian, datablog, datastore, journalism, data-journalism

A few notes on the Guardian Open Platform

This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open.

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Learning to Think Like A Programmer. Outstanding advice aimed mainly at journalists, but important to anyone who collects information for a living and might want it to be automatically processed at some point in the future.

# 22nd January 2009, 6:06 pm / tom-armitage, programming, journalism, data-journalism

Train Crash Leads LA Times to Create Django Database on Deadline. A story from last September. I didn’t know the LA Times used Django. UPDATE: Yes I did, I introduced their panel about it at DjangoCon. Sorry, mind like a sieve sometimes.

# 21st January 2009, 5:19 pm / latimes, data-journalism, django, newspapers, python

Washington Post Update. Peter Harkins summarises the large number of Django-powered database journalism projects released by the Post since September 2007.

# 16th January 2009, 12:18 pm / peter-harkins, washington-post, django, python, data-journalism

2008

Google apps for your newsroom. How the LJ World team use online tools like Google Spreadsheet, Swivel, ManyEyes and Google MyMaps to collaborate with the newsroom and build data-heavy applications even faster.

# 7th January 2008, 9:24 pm / news, journalism, ljworld, django, manyeyes, google, mymaps, google-maps, google-calendar, google-docs, newsroom, collaboration, matt-croydon, data-journalism