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Dealing with election results data. Alf Eaton loaded the Guardian’s European election results spreadsheet in to Google’s new Fusion Tables tool.

# 12th June 2009, 6:06 pm / guardian, datablog, datastore, elections, alf-eaton, google, fusiontables

Exactly how well did the BNP do where you live? 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.

# 11th June 2009, 11:37 am / datablog, guardian, elections, datastore, bnp

#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation. 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.

# 9th April 2009, 10:57 am / openplatform, guardian, datablog, datastore, journalism