Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bird’s eye view of planes, trains and phone lines

Clips from the BBC's Britain From Above series.
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The EPA’s ‘most wanted’ list

I'm finding America's Environment Protection Agency list of fugitives strangely compelling.
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My favourite new site is: flowingdata.com

I love good data visualisations and look forward to seeing them used more often on news sites. I was delighted to come across www.flowingdata.com the other day via a Twitter link to this visualisation of people tweeting about President Obama's inauguration (links to flowingdata.com)
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BBC’s Air Traffic over Britain

From the BBC.
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‘Quality mark’ suggested for news websites

A UK report into the news industry is expected to float the idea of a kitemark, or quality stamp, for news websites that meet certain criteria, according to Press Gazette. This was an idea waiting to happen, albeit one fraught with difficulties. Yes, it would be nice for people to have a simple way of [...]
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