From business school to data reporter
CBC Winnipeg data reporter Jacques Marcoux brings together disparate data sources to create original stories nobody else has. [...]
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Digging into the panama papers data
If you've been fascinated by the revelations in the Panama Papers leak, you can now delve into some of the data used by the international team of hundreds of journalists who spent a year on the project before going public in early April. [...]
Quicktip-Grab some data off a webpage and put it in a spreadsheet
This skill works with just about any spreadsheet program, on the desktop or in the cloud, and with any of the major browsers, Chrome, Edge, Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Safari. One of the simplest data tasks is to take some tabular data from the web and copy it into a spreadsheet program for some [...]
FOI Audit; the curse of the PDF
There are more open data sites than ever, at all levels of government. But the 2015 Newspapers Canada FOI Audit has found a huge discrepancy between the language of data openness, and the realities. [...]