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Digital Currency Timeline

To complement an article I’m writing, I decided to do a timeline of the most relevant digital currencies for the past 20+ years. This is the result.

Top 5 essential skills for a data journalist

New York Times’ Aron Pilhofer answer to that question on the NICAR-L mailing list.

CartoDB workshop in Barcelona

Last Monday I attended a workshop about CartoDB,a powerful and open source geospatial data management and visualization tool.

Common sense: from apps to responsive design

Media companies should go from apps to responsive websites to maximize their innovation resources and retain the control of their assets.

Barcelona: income by neighborhood

I see a trend around the Diagonal. Urbanism influenced neighborhood wealth, or the other way around?

Víctimas del terrorismo de ETA

En los 53 años que han pasado desde su fundación, ETA ha asesinado a 829 personas. No, a 858. No, no, 952. Espera un momento, ¿cuántas son las víctimas de ETA?

Innovation means collaboration for media companies

Media companies were never really innovative. Innovation happens at the fringes, outside the media ecosystem, with partnerships and collaborations.

QR codes could bridge the gap between print and online journalism

QR codes could be used with success in printed media to cross the gap between the limitations of print and the possibilities of online rich media.

#adoptaunsenador: an experiment in crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing experiment from the ProBonoPublico collective to retrieve all the properties and assets data from members of the Spanish Congress and Senate.

Barcelona population by place of birth

Treemap data visualization showing Barcelona population in 2009 by place of birth. Half of the people living in Barcelona weren’t born there.