R&D Gossip – our food for thought section.

01. Using dwell time to measure satisfaction for recommended content. Read more

02. The Verge video on Instagram Hyperlapse Stabilization Demo. Watch the video

03. Special issue of Digital Journalism addresses “Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques”. Read the article

04. The Whitehall Monitor 2014, a data-driven analysis which aims to chart the UK government and present data in an understandable, compelling and useful way. Read the report

05. A nice open-source visualisation tool: isomatic — the automatic isotype tool. Try it now

06. Digital storytelling at Storybench – Reddit: a guide for journalists. Read more

07. Google’s Android smartwear revealed. Read and watch more

08. “Enchanted objects” to kill the internet of things in 2015. Read more

09. pdffigures: A datajournalism open-source tool to extract figures, tables and captions from scholarly documents. Read more and try it

10. Read this BBC article on the cultural value of games. Read more