Facts are Sacred

Text only ebook

Simon Rogers

• Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571301621
• Year: 2013

What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?

Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it. Now, the most telling findings from the blog are brought together to give us the facts and figures behind the headlines. Ground-breaking and fascinating, it celebrates a resource that has pushed the boundaries of modern journalism and is a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Data everywhere
• Chapter 3: In the beginning…
• Case study: WikiLeaks
• Chapter 4: Spending power
• Chapter 5: Making money
• Chapter 6: Measuring happiness
• Case study: London 2012
• Chapter 7: Data around the world
• Chapter 8: Crowdsourcing
• Case study: Reading the Riots
• Chapter 9: The new punk
• Chapter 10: How we do it
• About the Author
• Copyright