An interview I did with Nick Evershed (Guardian Australia) and Henare Degan (Open Australia) about data journalism in Australia.
Federal political polling in 2014
I regularly cover the political polls with a view to providing readers with an objective overview of what the different pollsters have found. We have a database of all the national polls going back several years that I use to provide context to the stories. This allows me to focus…
Interactive: Polling Explorer
The Australian Financial Review’s Polling Explorer was designed to help make sense of the data deluge that accompanies every federal budget. The interactive features five modules tackling a different major element of the budget. It was produced with the fine data visualisation experts from Small Multiples. Poll of Polls This interactive graphic…
Data Journalism: The hacks become the hackers
In the US state that supplies most of the world’s bourbon, I saw a possible future for journalism. In that future, reporters are as adept at crunching numbers and interrogating databases as they are at interviewing, and write code as much as they do copy. I once dismissed the idea…
Federal Election 2013: The Social Media View
Social media will be a key battleground in this year’s Federal Election with the major parties using Twitter, Facebook and YoutTube to get their message out and fire up their supporter base. The Financial Review has developed an interactive database of the key stats for all the federal politicians on…