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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: datablog</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/datablog.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-06-12T18:06:05+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Dealing with election results data</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/12/hublog/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-06-12T18:06:05+00:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T18:06:05+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/12/hublog/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001862.html"&gt;Dealing with election results data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Alf Eaton loaded the Guardian’s European election results spreadsheet in to Google’s new Fusion Tables tool.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/alf-eaton"&gt;alf-eaton&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datablog"&gt;datablog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore"&gt;datastore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/elections"&gt;elections&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fusiontables"&gt;fusiontables&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian"&gt;guardian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="alf-eaton"/><category term="datablog"/><category term="datastore"/><category term="elections"/><category term="fusiontables"/><category term="google"/><category term="guardian"/></entry><entry><title>Exactly how well did the BNP do where you live?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/11/exactly/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-06-11T11:37:56+00:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T11:37:56+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/11/exactly/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/table/2009/jun/09/european-elections-elections-2009"&gt;Exactly how well did the BNP do where you live?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Guardian journalists spent a day and a half calling round different local authorities to get a proper breakdown of the European election results (which are only officially published in aggregate) and published the results as a spreadsheet on the Datablog.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bnp"&gt;bnp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datablog"&gt;datablog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore"&gt;datastore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/elections"&gt;elections&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian"&gt;guardian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="bnp"/><category term="datablog"/><category term="datastore"/><category term="elections"/><category term="guardian"/></entry><entry><title>#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/9/datajourn/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-04-09T10:57:03+00:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T10:57:03+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/9/datajourn/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/04/08/datajourn-part-1-a-new-conversation-please-re-tweet/"&gt;#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Journalism.co.uk report on the first instance of a Guardian story that was driven by an external developer’s work with data originally released on our Datablog.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-journalism"&gt;data-journalism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datablog"&gt;datablog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore"&gt;datastore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian"&gt;guardian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/journalism"&gt;journalism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openplatform"&gt;openplatform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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