A data investigation into Birmingham’s and the West Midlands’ heavy metal scene.
The GitHub repo for the web scrapers: https://github.com/datacarvel/Brum-Rock
Tag: United Kingdom
Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) – but the UK has an opportunity to make a statement
For quite a while now I have been submitting and managing Freedom of Information requests to more than a hundred universities in the United Kingdom.
While the issue around ever-skyrocketing costs of scholarly journals subscriptions isn’t news, I wanted to see whether, since the topic went in the mainstream, the awareness around it had any effect on what the universities are paying.
Mapped: Birmingham’s council elections 2018 results
Electoral party results!
Election map: Birmingham’s new districts on top of former ones, with their past results
A screenshot of the interactive map, which you can find in the links below.
Ahead of today’s upcoming results (and previously published elsewhere), here is a map of the new wards over the former ones with their past electoral results (winning party).
See the story here for the Birmingham Eastside and here for Birmingham Live!
Additionally, here is a more detailed description of a few wards that were merged from former wards won by different parties.
Don’t believe the bus: See how Brexit is plaguing the NHS – Explainer
As time progresses, it is less and less likely that the Leave voters of 2016 will ever see the fruits of their vote if they had in mind that promise of extra weekly money for the NHS in millions.
Despite the widely publicised economy of £350 million a week that was promised for the NHS, there is close to no one left to say that this figure can be achieved anytime soon. Not even those who suggested it. And with good reasons.
These are the football clubs that have been fined for underpaying employees
Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil Town FC.
But the local city club and St. Helens RFC are by far the biggest offenders, owing each to their minimum wage employees more than £5,500.
Read more here and see how clubs reacted.
In the UK, data journalism and investigations are getting more local
I was fortunate enough to attend Data Journalism UK 2017, the event’s second edition. The conference was held at the BBC in Birmingham.
Among other things, a significant insight was that data and investigative journalism are now much more interested in local stories than ever before. Typically, ground-breaking investigations and data stories are developed with the national or regional picture in mind.
But recent initiatives like the BBC’s Local News Partnerships, the Bureau Local and Urbs Media are set to broaden investigations and data scrutiny to local governments and organisations.
See how by reading this article ➡️ https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/in-the-uk-data-journalism-and-investigations-are-getting-more-local-than-ever/s2/a714339/