New York taxi details can be extracted from anonymised data, researchers say
FoI request reveals data on 173m individual trips in US city - but could yield more details, such as drivers' addresses and income. By Alex Hern
March 2014
MPs and open-data advocates slam postcode selloff
Postcode Address File (PAF) should have been kept as open data for government, says committee. By Charles Arthur
February 2014
Environment Agency poised to open flood data to public
After talks with the cabinet office, real-time river levels, flood maps and more could all become available as free and commercially reusable data. By Charles Arthur
November 2013
Media blog
BBC signs open data agreement
Ami Sedghi: Corporation signals its willingness to collaborate with the Open Data Institute and three other non-profit bodies
August 2013
Internet exhibition uses crowdsourcing to honour memory of web activist
Artist creates homage to free information campaigner Aaron Swartz at Mexico City gallery
June 2013
Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr?
Aaron Swartz campaigned for a free and open internet. But after he fell foul of US authorities, he took his own life. His former girlfriend tells Elizabeth Day of her anger at his treatment
May 2013
Datablog
The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?
Datablog
Want the data on where HS2 will be? You won't get it from data.gov.uk
April 2013
Datablog
Meet the man who turned David Cameron onto open data
Data visualisation competition with Google
Live debate video: Can government data change the world?
Datablog
Doing good with data: why Datakind is launching in the UK
Facts are sacred: the power of data
History of data journalism at the Guardian
Facts are sacred: the power of data
What is data journalism at the Guardian?
Facts are sacred: the power of data
Why data matters at the Guardian
February 2013
Data visualisation competition with Google
Competition: visualise open government data and win $2,000
What can you do with the thousands of open government datasets? With Google and Open Knowledge Foundation we are launching a competition to find the best dataviz out there. You might even win a prize
January 2013
Datablog
National Archives: where is the records backlog?
New data shows exactly which departments are releasing all the records they are supposed to under the latest rules. What is going on?
December 2012
Datablog
Animation: our data journalism highlights
What did Guardian Data cover in the last year? Mona Chalabi has created this New Year's present for you with our animated highlights of the year - what will 2013 bring?
Datablog
TEDx video: Data journalism and punk
Is data journalism the new punk? Datablog editor Simon Rogers gave this talk at the recent TEDx Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris
Datablog
Named and shamed: the worst government annual reports, 2012
Every year we try to break down public spending using government annual reports and accounts; and each year it just gets harder - with this year's being the most difficult yet. Why?
November 2012
US 2012 election data
Full US 2012 election county-level results to download
Looking for the raw election data to download for yourself? This is where you find it
