Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsFacebook launches Notify News App
As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel. (Time Inc, which owns Fortune, is also a partner in the new app.) See the Facebook blog for an introduction More information is at http://notify.co/ […]
Paris attacks
News reports Two useful sites which aggregate reports from other sources 24/7 News Now covers more than 40,000 sources. Country indicated by national flag next to the headline. EMM lists top stories has lists of sources in the left For a broader picture on trends see the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland containing […]
Cybersecurity and privacy of data
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee have launched an inquiry into cyber security following the recent cyber-attack of TalkTalk’s website. This will focus specifically on TalkTalk as well as more generally on privacy and regulation online. The website will have committee minutes and reports available to the public. Information Commissioners Office has issued a statement […]
Grant Thornton Health and Wellbeing Index.
Released this week a major new report which considers a local place based approach for improving health and wellbeing. It has analysis of the correlation between the economic, social and environmental health determinants and the health outcomes both the determinants of ill health and health outcomes for 324 Local Authority Areas in England. For further […]
Eurobarometer site upgrade
European Commission has recently revamped the Eurobarometer website. If you have not visited it before Eurobarometer is a great place for tracing free high quality cross-national comparative surveys of citizens from European nations. The first survey was held in 1974 and focused upon inflation. It is possible to download all the surveys and their accompanying […]
The Counted
The Counted launched by the Guardian newspaper to provide the public with statistical data about people killed by the police in the USA. It is possible to search by name, age, gender, ethnicity and state.
NarcoData
A new data visualization tool created by Mexican digital news site Animal Politico and data journalism platform Poderopedia, which aims to provide a visual mapping of drug cartels and organised drug crime in Mexico. At the moment 4 years of data seems to be available. All information is offered in Spanish.
Malala
Released this week, He Named me Mala, the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also available are films of C-Span appearances. Times Documentary 2012 Class dismissed which featured her school. And read her 2009 blog.
Fuel poverty and cold homes
Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain than in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy. It provides analysis of energy prices and the quality of housing stock. The UK government website provides free access to official definitions of fuel poverty plus annual reports on its […]
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