Journos create data journalism experiment Detention Logs

June 13, 2013 11:14

Three young freelance journalists, who invested hundreds of hours in decoding and reformatting thousands of Department of Immigration records, are behind one of the largest data journalism projects in Australian history.

On Monday the trio, consisting of Luke Bacon, Lawrence Bull and Paul Farrell, launched a new data resource consisting of more 7000 incident logs from detention centres around Australia.

The website Detention Logs is a project launched in conjunction with online news websites The Global Mail, The Guardian and New Matilda, with each media outlet allowed to draw news stories and data for visualisation from the records ahead of the launch.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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2 COMMENTS

Wayne 13 Jun 13

And yet another reason why the current boat people policy is an unmitigated disaster… http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne.....6662780447

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Encyclic! 14 Jun 13

“Boat People”? I think the term you’re looking for is “Asylum Seeker”.

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