Finding data: advanced search operators
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Part of the Data and Multimedia Journalism module on the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University
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Finding data: advanced search operators
- 1. MED7126 Data and Multimedia Journalism Paul Bradshaw Getting the data Advanced search tips
- 2. Don’t ask for what you want: describe what you expect to find Search operators
- 3. What text will it contain? Where will that text be? What text will it not contain? Imagine the data: text
- 4. Specific references, not general: Specify a constituency… …a school …an institution code …an invoice number …a piece of jargon
- 10. quotes: “disclosure log” asterisk “between * and 2014” minus “hate crime” -religion -"publication scheme" Number ranges: 2000..2014
- 12. "life expectancy" "perry barr"
- 13. inurl:
- 19. "life expectancy" "perry barr"
- 20. "life expectancy" "perry barr" filetype:xls
- 22. "life expectancy" "perry barr" filetype:xls site:ons.gov.uk
- 23. "life expectancy" "perry barr" filetype:xls site:ons.gov.uk 2009..2014
- 24. "life expectancy" "perry barr" filetype:xls site:ons.gov.uk 2009..2014 -winter
- 26. Where is it likely to be What format? When was it not published? Imagine the data: meta data
- 27. site:
- 29. filetype:
- 31. search tools
- 33. “disclosure log” site:gov.uk allintitle:hate crime report filetype:pdf site:police.uk art inurl:search.asp -library Combine operators:
- 35. zanran.com
- 36. Some sites use the robots.txt protocol to tell search engines not to index Use DownThemAll to download the site and search it locally Sites that aren’t indexed
- 37. Do it now: Search for a piece of jargon in your field, on a particular type of site Search for spreadsheets or PDFs mentioning an individual in your field