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Guardian: How open is your Internet? An interactive map

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For a Guardian series on the openness of the Internet, I helped with building a data set that fed into the interactive below. I also wrote the article that accompanied it.

Guardian: Asylum seekers mapped: where did they come from, where are they going?

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To coincide with the release of a UN report on asylum seekers, I built two interactive maps showing change over previous year, both in terms of where asylum seekers were originating and where they were going. I also did a writeup on the report.

Paul Bradshaw Data Journalism Massive -- scattered notes

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Scraping

  • Tools:
    • OutWit Hub
    • Needlebase
    • Scraperwiki
    • Google Spreadsheets
    • Formulae
  • Walkthru using Google Docs (=import)
    1. Open a spreadsheet
    2. In A1, type the URL of a page with a table.
    3. In cell A2, type: =ImportHTML(A1, "table", 1)
    4. Function importHTML($source, $element, $index)
      • Source = Where you're getting data from. Can be a spreadsheet cell.
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