
My name's Nicolas Kayser-Bril and I'm a nerd.
For a living, I tell stories using data. I crunch, grind, chew and squeeze numbers to extract meaning out of them. That's called data-driven journalism and I'm proud to have been one of the first ones to practice it in Europe.
Here's my e-mail address:
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Provided the curves above aren't above 200, expect a fast answer.
Of course, it comes with an API. Click to see the documentation.
The purpose of this API is mostly to have fun coding it and to allow me to quickly change the visual appearance of this website in the future. It is not meant to be used by third-parties, but you're free to give it a try. The terms of use are: Be nice.
URL
http://nkb.fr/api/parameter
Supported format
JSON
Supported request method
GET
Parameter
The parameter represents the type of data to be pulled:
- time_on_computer: Amount of time spent on my computer for the past 10 days in seconds.
- emails: Number of emails received per day in the past 10 days.
- projects: The projects I led that I'm proud of.
- articles: Select articles I wrote.
- conferences: Conferences I spoke at.
- interviews: Interviews I gave.
- courses: Training classes I conducted.
Sample request
http://nkb.fr/api/articles
Sample response
{
"status": "OK",
"request": "List of articles",
"related_image_url": "http://nkb.fr/wp-content/themes/nkb/frame6_redux.jpg",
"response": {
"67": {
"title": "News organizations must become hubs of trusted data in a market see...",
"date": "2011-03-01 07:31:42",
"related_url": "http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/voices-news-organizations-must-bec...",
"related_media": "Nieman Journalism Lab"
},
"94": {
"title": "Allô, c’est Julian Assange",
"date": "2010-10-22 20:04:23",
"related_url": "http://owni.fr/2010/10/22/julian-assange-wikileaks-irak/",
"related_media": "OWNI"
},
"97": {
"title": "Reasons to cheer from Amsterdam's Data-Driven Journalism conference...",
"date": "2010-08-26 20:05:41",
"related_url": "http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/08/26/ddj-reasons-to-che...",
"related_media": "Journalism.co.uk"
},
"103": {
"title": "Pour un open data des usagers",
"date": "2011-03-08 20:29:03",
"related_url": "http://www.internetactu.net/2011/03/08/pour-un-opendata-des-usagers",
"related_media": "Internet Actu"
},
"105": {
"title": "#TEDxCarthage: Leçon d’humilité",
"date": "2011-03-23 20:29:36",
"related_url": "http://owni.fr/2011/03/23/tedxcarthage-lecon-d-humilite/",
"related_media": "OWNI"
}
}
}
Tweets
RT @Pirhoo: Le code source de @Feowl est sur GitHub https://t.co/Ijtk4K8d et le chantier a déjà commencé ;) May 27th
Still having a difficult time with SVG conversion. Any help appreciated! Convert SVG polygon to path http://t.co/mHu5aB56 #ddj May 23rd
Hey Twitter, how can I convert SVG polygons to path for use in @kartographJS ? ping @driven_by_data May 22nd
This article by Niel Clark is a disgrace for @guardian http://t.co/lwGC6Dyf The study it cites spans only 1990-2000 http://t.co/pRBLJCMT May 21st
Thx at @voiceofVocer for translating my article in German! http://t.co/FgzZOHYp #ddj (in english at http://t.co/CdSyXROi ) May 21st
#Datavis des courbes de popularité des candidats républicains en plug anal http://t.co/cYkmBGuX data everywhere via @archiloque May 20th
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Projects I'm proud of
Alerte Politique, April 15, 2012 , Journalism++
Mobile App. Using over 6 million data points released as open data by the French government, AlertePolitique is a mobile app that gives users the results for all elections since 2001 in the city they are in. Get it on Google Play and on iTunes.
Médias: nouveaux modèles économiques et questions de déontologie, November 28, 2010 , Alliance internationale des journalistes
Report. With funding from an NGO supporting journalism, I took an in-depth look at the business models of online media and the related evolutions in journalistic ethics, together with Philippe Couve, a French media expert.
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Some articles I wrote
Conferences I spoke at
Training classes I conducted
Modèles économiques de la presse en ligne, April 3, 2012 , CAPJC, Tunis
Formation datajournalisme, January 22, 2012 , Ecole de Journalisme de Lille
Journalisme de données (12-hour course), May 27, 2011 , EMI-CFD, Paris
Journalisme et gestion de projet, March 25, 2011 , Ecole de journalisme de Sciences-Po, Paris
Datajournalisme (6-hour class), March 10, 2011 , ESJ, Lille
Datajournalism and inverstigation (6-hour class), January 20, 2011 , CFJ, Paris
Datajournalisme (16-hour course), November 1, 2010 , Licence Pro, Université de Metz
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