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Below are select recent portfolio items, in no particular order. Note that this isn't all my recent content — to see my full portfolio, go here.

Guardian: How open is your Internet? An interactive map

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 23:00

For a Guardian series on the openness of the Internet, I helped with building a data set that fed into the interactive below. I also wrote the article that accompanied it.

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PC Pro: Greenpeace: Apple's cloud needs cleaner energy

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 23:00

My fourth article for PC Pro discussed a report put out by environmental group Greenpeace, which argued for using cleaner energy for cloud computing.

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Hackney Citizen: "Houseboaters being 'forced out' from Olympics area"

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 17:02

First article in the Hackney Citizen, "Houseboaters being 'forced out' from Olympics area." It was cover of the January 2012 issue.

British Waterways (BW) has been accused of “forcing out” Hackney’s boaters after it announced plans to limit mooring times and impose fines for overstaying in an area close to the Olympic site.

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Guardian: Razzie awards visualised using interlinked graphic

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 23:00

One of my first projects for the Guardian Data Store was using linked data to constructed a hierarchical graph of Golden Raspberry Award ("Razzie") recipients. The graph itself is constructed in Javascript through the Javascript Infoviz Toolkit.

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Calgary Herald: Blindness in Africa can be prevented, says visiting expert

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 07:00

Originally published in Calgary Herald, City & Region section, page B9, June 23, 2011.

Eyesight, for many, is something taken for granted until it is lost.

In North America, the majority of blindness is caused naturally by old age. However, the situation in Africa is quite a different story.

"In Africa, we have eight million people who are blind, and maybe three times that many who are severely visually impaired," said Dr. Daniel Etya'ale, executive director of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

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Guardian: Asylum seekers mapped: where did they come from, where are they going?

Submitted by Ændrew Rininsland on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 23:00

To coincide with the release of a UN report on asylum seekers, I built two interactive maps showing change over previous year, both in terms of where asylum seekers were originating and where they were going. I also did a writeup on the report.

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