Last week's #weeknotes: a people week – is it the new normal?
In sad news: 👋 to my old @Scaleway@twitter.com C1 home 😪
(if you're publishing #weeknotes say hi!)
https://blog.basilesimon.fr/2021/05/21/weeknotes-34/
So, so chuffed to have contributed a chapter to the updated version of the Data Journalism Handbook, published by Amsterdam University Press
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048542079/the-data-journalism-handbook
RT @tillnm@twitter.com
Visual media analysis showing how the Corona coverage grew over time in a German newspaper. Excellent work by @laessr@twitter.com https://twitter.com/laessr/status/1245633579775700998
This is my first public project with Svelte (https://svelte.dev/) and I'm really happy with how easy it is to get going with it.
It was called (ref needed) "the disappearing framework" and tbh I'm happy with how terse its reactivity is.
. @aendrew wrote a GDPR "Subject Access Request" template:
https://gist.github.com/aendrew/e5a3de77040493632a7a277164f5ee0a
Share far and wide and remember to be polite :)
I've SAR'ed companies that did employment background checks, as well as my previous mobile network operator. Very interesting indeed.
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We all benefit from open content and standards – why would we choose the walled garden of Medium to publish Nightingale?
Five years already since Chris Woods and I created Airwars, and what results were achieved: https://airwars.org/news-and-investigations/airwars-marks-five-years-of-tracking-civilian-harm/
We're struggling to make sense of the split in the Conservative Party over Brexit.
I fed 240 Brexit votes to t-SNE, a discovery machine learning algorithm. Here's what it "saw":
https://blog.basilesimon.fr/2019/10/06/brexit-machine-learning/
So happy the Data Vis Meetup Berlin is happening again: https://www.meetup.com/Data-Visualization-Berlin/events/264315597/ #visber
On this, from @albertocairo: http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2019/08/the-increasing-popularity-of-ternary.html
We also used ternaries to show how British MPs voted for/against the government (or abstained):
https://tmsnrt.rs/2XWp3qG
Freelance dataviz, journalism, technologist. Ex graphics editor Reuters Graphics, The Times, BBC News Labs.