How the Guardian Does DataJournalism

August 2010 Category: Scrapbook

Via the Guardian:

The Wikileaks' Afghanistan war logs are a fantastic victory for investigative data basedjournalism, not only here at the Guardian but at the New York Times and Der Spiegel too.

It’s also datajournalism in action. What we wanted to do was enable our team of specialist reporters to get great human stories from the information – and we wanted to analyse it to get the big picture, to show how the war really is going.

It’s been a busy month for those of us who work with data at the Guardian; this is how we got here.