notes.jwyg.org

Working notes

A living, working space for gathering various links, lists, notes and examples from Jonathan Gray (@jwyg), mainly shared in the context of teaching and events.

Datasets and data projects

• List of places to find examples of data journalism projects;
• Examples of fiscal data visualisations;
• List of 500+ data portals on: dataportals.org which includes:
  • International data portals such as data.worldbank.org;
  • National data portals such as data.gov, data.gov.uk or data.gouv.fr;
  • Local and city data portals such as data.london.gov.uk.
• “Data is plural” a “weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets” from Jeremy Singer-Vine, Data Editor at BuzzFeed News - newsletter and spreadsheet.

Readings

• Readings on the sociology of quantification;
• Readings on data visualisation;
• Research on data journalism;
• Publications from the Digital Methods Initiative;
• Readings on visual methods;
• Readings on data and ethics;
• Bibliography on ethical, legal and social implications of the big data (from Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society);
• Readings on the social and political study of algorithms:
  • List on Critical Algorithm Studies from Social Media Collective;
  • List from Governing Algorithms conference at NYU;
  • List from Auditing Algorithms project.

Learning resources

• List of university courses and programmes on data journalism;
• List of videos and tutorials from the Digital Methods Initiative.

Tools

• Tools, Scripts, Libraries for Digital Methods Research