In the *Map View*, you can now colour districts adjusted by population. This gives you a much more accurate picture of news density and coverage per capita, rather than just showing raw counts of news outlets per district.
I love Gantt charts as a mean to track and communicate progress. Incredible feeling seeing all my PhD research objectives becoming "Complete", with only one final row left to convert!
Should you spot any issues or inconsistencies, please do get in touch! We have a form for correction requests on the website. This is a big project run by a small team, and we do our best to maintain it as well as we possibly can.
Check out our new *Methodology View* to get a clear, detailed breakdown of our data sources, metrics, and calculations, and get access to our data.
Hope these new features will be of use to policymakers, publishers, funders, and communities. It's been great seeing the Map cited in so many works out there.
We've added rich, data-driven descriptions for individual districts and news outlets right in the *Map View*.
We’ve just rolled out the biggest update to the @publicinterestnews.org.uk Local News Map (map.publicinterestnews.org.uk) to date!
We have added a whole new set of features and tabs. I will unpack some here below 🧵👇