Facts are Sacred
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Published on 15. April 2013
320 pages
978-0-571-30162-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?
Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it. Now, the most telling findings from the blog are brought together to give us the facts and figures behind the headlines. Ground-breaking and fascinating, it celebrates a resource that has pushed the boundaries of modern journalism and is a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.
Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it. Now, the most telling findings from the blog are brought together to give us the facts and figures behind the headlines. Ground-breaking and fascinating, it celebrates a resource that has pushed the boundaries of modern journalism and is a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-571-30162-1 (9780571301621)
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Simon Rogers
Facts are Sacred
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04/2013
Faber & Faber
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Person
Simon Rogers is the editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with the Guardian's groundbreaking decision to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records, as well as the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq 'Wikileaks' war logs. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence. In 2011, the datalog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media, the Knight Batten award for innovation in journalism and the Online Media award for innovation in journalism.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Data everywhere
- Chapter 3: In the beginning.
- Case study: WikiLeaks
- Chapter 4: Spending power
- Chapter 5: Making money
- Chapter 6: Measuring happiness
- Case study: London 2012
- Chapter 7: Data around the world
- Chapter 8: Crowdsourcing
- Case study: Reading the Riots
- Chapter 9: The new punk
- Chapter 10: How we do it
- About the Author
- Copyright
