Tommy Kaas,of the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting,just presented a fascinating session on how to use Excel tools to “scrape”data off the web an import it into Excel,at least Excel XP. This is typically helpful where one needs to extract data from standardized tables on dynamic web sites,[...]
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We've been using a variety of web-based bookmarking tools for the past four or five years,tools like the now-departed Blink and Backflip. They were all OK (so long as they remained financially viable),but never quite seemed to meet all our needs. Recently,though,we learned about Furl (www.furl.net) and we like what we see. Furl [...] Here at the IAJ we believe one of the reasons people come to newspapers or broadcast stations is to get the data which,upon analysis,they can turn into information that helps them make decisions. Ergo,the more meaningful data a journalistic institution can provide,the greater value that institution has for a community. A [...] A talented band of coders in St. Petersburg,Russia has put together a nifty simulation modeling application written in Java. Anylogic™“supports virtually all existing approaches to discrete event and continuous modeling,such as process flow diagrams,system dynamics,agent-based modeling,state charts,equation systems,etc. With this incredibly rich toolset you are not limited [...] Gary Price's Resource Shelf indirectly pointed us to a new resource that can provide journalists with a quick and not-so-dirty GIS tool for their community or any other in the U.S. GeoLib is the Public Library Geographic Database (PLGDB) Mapping site. But its mapping engine delivers far more than just push-pining public libraries. The [...] | ||||||
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