Copenhagen, 22 October 2010

Information.dk, Internetavisen for politik og kultur, internet newspaper for politics and culture, has launched a weblog for data driven journalism. Earlier we reported similar weblogs being started by Zeit Online, and the Berlin newspaper taz. These weblogs are all reminiscent of the UK Guardian's Data Blog that has been active for a longer time already.

The Information.dk weblog started with a posting that paid hommage to the Guardian's blog for being a source of inspiration:

"This is the first post at our Information.dk newspaper's new data blog. The purpose of this blog is to gather and present some of the data sources that underlie our articles. The blog can for instance show visualizations of data sets on maps, graphs and the like. In some cases this will be open data sets, which you can download and work on. If you have made a data set or some visualizations that you would like us to use, give us a hint at databloggen@information.dk. The idea by for the blog, by the way, has been taken from the Guardian Data Blog.Enjoy!"

"Dette er det første indlæg på Dagbladet Informations nye datablog. Formålet med denne blog er at samle og præsentere nogle af de datakilder, der ligger til grund for vores artikler.

Bloggen kan fx vise visualiseringer af datasæt på kort, grafer og lign. I nogle tilfælde være tale om åbne datasæt, som du selv kan downloade og arbejde videre med.

Hvis du selv har lavet et datasæt eller nogle visualiseringer, som du gerne vil have, vi publicerer, så giv os et tip.

Ideen til bloggen er iøvrigt tyvstjålet fra Guardians datablog"

Subsequent postings thusfar have been about data mining the recent publication of Iraq military reports on WikiLeaks. The data blog can be found at http://www.information.dk/databloggen