Monday, 5 May 2014

Is Hackney's Tech City driving house price rises?


A new build apartment block towers over the derelict Woodberry Down Estate in Hackney. Photo by Jack Millner 

Figures from the Land Registry Price Index in February showed that house prices in Hackney are rising faster than any other London borough, with a 17% increase on last year's prices. 





Thursday, 1 May 2014

Q&A with editor of Ampp3d Martin Belam

Martin Belam is editor of Ampp3d, a project by The Mirror that uses data journalism and visualisation to tell stories in a clear, concise and fun way. The site is designed to be viewed on mobile devices, and experimentation with visuals have fuelled some debate online about accuracy. Here he discusses this tension between accuracy and clarity in data driven journalism.