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New Project: MiniVAN for the Visual Analysis of Networks

By jwyg | Published: March 30, 2018

I’m happy to announce that the Public Data Lab has received funding from Sage Publishing to develop a project called MiniVAN. This will be a simple tool to facilitate the visual analysis of networks and online publication of results. Further details are copied below. MiniVAN will be an easy-to-use tool that will support non-specialist social […]

Posted in academia, data, design, digital methods, networks, projects, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, visualisation | Also tagged design, Digital Methods, digital sociology, médialab Sciences Po, network analysis, Public Data Lab, SigmaJS, visual network analysis | Comments closed

Preprint on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies

By jwyg | Published: October 19, 2017

We’ve recently uploaded a new preprint for a book chapter on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, which is to be published in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) edited by Scott Eldridge II and Bob Franklin. This is part of a series of collaborations with Tommaso Venturini, […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, networks, Public Data Lab, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology, visualisation | Also tagged data journalism, data storytelling, graphs, multimodal, network analysis, network literacies, Public Data Lab, storytelling, storytelling devices, styles of reasoning, visual network analysis, visual network exploration | Comments closed

New Report: “Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape”

By jwyg | Published: September 3, 2015

How might changing the way that information about public money is organised, circulated and utilised in society shape the character of democratic engagement and political accountability in decision-making about public funds? How are ideals from the open data movement gaining traction amongst advocates and practitioners of financial transparency, to what end, and with what consequences? […]

Posted in data, datajournalism, digital methods, open data, policy, publications, research | Also tagged Data Activism, data journalism, Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, digital sts, financial transparency, follow the money, Issue Mapping, network analysis, open budget data, open budgets, open data, open knowledge, openness, public money | Comments closed

Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Co-Founder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam and the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.