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Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software consultant and writer who specialises in the use of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK’s best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences and seminars.

Her personal blog is Chocolate and Vodka, and yes, she’s married to Kevin.

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Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is a freelance journalist and digital strategist with more than a decade of experience with the BBC and the Guardian. He has been a digital journalist since 1996 with experience in radio, television, print and the web. As a journalist, he uses blogs, social networks, Web 2.0 tools and mobile technology to break news, to engage with audiences and tell the story behind the headlines in multiple media and on multiple platforms.

From 2009-2010, he was the digital research editor at The Guardian where he focused on evaluating and adapting digital innovations to support The Guardian’s world-class journalism. He joined The Guardian in September 2006 as their first blogs editor after 8 years with the BBC working across the web, television and radio. He joined the BBC in 1998 to become their first online journalist outside of the UK, working as the Washington correspondent for BBCNews.com.

And, yes, he’s married to Suw.

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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Future of News: Data Mining, Visualization and Interactivity

Posted by Kevin Anderson


I felt that it would be inconsiderate to the other panelists to live blog my own panel, but here is my presentation. And here are some links that I used in creating the presentation.

I’ll add some more after the panel is done including some links to Matt Hurst of Microsoft Live Labs and David Blei with the Department of Computer Science at Princeton.

Matt showed some excellent visualisations of the connections between bloggers as well as some very fascinating graphs showing the blog buzz about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the clear inflection point in January after his win in the Iowa caucuses. Fascinating stuff.
David showed some excellent examples of the automated analysis of of text such as a magazine’s archive, the Huffington Post and the political blogs Daily Kos and RedState. I think there is an opportunity here for news organisations to use these techniques to do some data-mining of their own archives, both for their readers and themselves.
It was a great panel, and we had a great discussion with the audience. Thanks to everyone involved.

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2 Responses to “Future of News: Data Mining, Visualization and Interactivity”

  1. Paul Mohr Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    This slide show seemed to lag between frames. I use Google presentations and it seems to run smoothly. It was interesting and I have starting using this with video. I have also done live collaboration with Google and that is very interesting. Like online meetings I have setup for customers, except it seems more open in the way people interact. Is this easy to use?

  2. Kevin Anderson Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 2:52 am

    Paul, I didn’t seem to have too much difficulty playing the slide show. If you hover over the slides themselves, the cursor will change between a hand pointing to the left (back one slide), right (forward one slide) and up (open a hyperlink). Suw and I have used Google for live collaboration, although when we write articles together, we tend to use SubEthaEdit. SlideShare accepts PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentations as well as PDF, which is what I uploaded. I had to use PDF because SlideShare doesn’t do Apple’s Keynote, which is what I use for my presentations.