Guardian Datablog - journalists publishing raw data as Google Spreadsheets

simonw · on July 5, 2009

We've been running this for several months now. Some of the datasets published are the result of in-depth research by our journalists and researchers - for example, http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/table/2009/jun/09/eu... required calling 50 individual councils to obtain the local break-down results of the European elections (which are only officially published as aggregate totals).

You can see a full list of available datasets here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store

We actively encourage people to use the data for their own mashups and visualisations. Some of the stuff people have done can be seen in the Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1115946@N24/

diN0bot · on July 5, 2009

this is terrific.

dazzawazza · on July 5, 2009

As long as the methodology behind the data collection is given as well, I think this is a huge step forward for journalism.

Some stories require hundreds of hours of research which is then distilled into 1000 words and a bar chart, what a shame.

thanks.