Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsNew York Times Archive
We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms. This resource is displayed on the A-Z database list. For more information see http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/n/new-york-times
Sketch Engine
We now have a new subscription to Sketch Engine. Sketch Engine is a corpus query system which enables the occurences of words within large corpora of texts to be identified and the grammatical and locational uses of words to be explored. This resource is displayed on our A-Z database list.
National Archives: Olympic record
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/olympics/ A specialist section of pages created by the National archives to highlight their Olympic and Paralympic games holdings. Explore the timeline to see great examples of online primary source materials from 1896-2012. These include photos, manuscripts and government papers relating to Olympic organisation, finance and participation. See the British Foreign Office dispatch from first […]
Arab social media report
http://www.dsg.ae/en/asmr3/index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Dubai University has been conducting surveys of the use of social media in the Arab uprising. It includes mappings by age gender and use of specific tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093 &entityID=000158349_20120419083611 First analysis of the new indexed launched recently by the World Bank which provides individual data on savers and borrowers worldwide. The 61 page report by Asli Demirguc-Kunt & Leora Klapperfinds that 50% of adults worldwide do not have bank accounts many report problems with access that could be easily solved by changes […]
2011 National Human Development Report for Russia
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/national/europethecis/russia/name,24360,en.html Find out more about socio-economic conditions in Russia by reading this major new report. Prepared by the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Focus is upon modernization and human development. Covers changes to the economy, organization of economic life. Also useful is the Nations in Transit report from Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/nations-transit which […]
18 days in Egypt
http://beta.18daysinegypt.com/ American documentary filmmaker and journalist Jigar Mehta has launched crowd-sourced interactive documentary project aimed at capturing the history of the revolution in Egypt. Explore videos contributed by citizen journalists on the website. Note it seems to load better using Firefox. The site is powered by GroupStream, an innovative new platform for group storytelling.
Free data journalism handbook
Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A book which introduces you to the basics of data journalism: uses real life case studies from international news rooms. Go behind the scenes at the Guardian data blog. http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/in_the_newsroom_3.html
World Development Indicators 2012
Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/news/world-development-indicators-2012-now-available The World Development Indicators include many time series of data covering global poverty and development trends since 1960.
Social Science Bites
Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Published by Sage. http://www.socialsciencebites.com/
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