Telegraph innovates again: A level results GoogleMaps mashup
August 23, 2007
After so long watching The Guardian take all the plaudits, The Telegraph website is starting to show some real innovation of its own. Following last week’s football Flash stat attack, Marcus Warren posts about their mashup/database-driven A level coverage including a league table of schools’ performance updated in real time “(almost)”. And a map of schools who have sent in results “with links back to their position in our list.” (shown above)
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Marcus Warren | August 24, 2007 at 1:23 pm
A levels are so last week
We’re doing GCSEs now
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/leaguetables/gcse2007state.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/leaguetables/gcse2007selective.xml
rgds
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JohnN | August 24, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hats off to the guardian, they are getting their act together. Finally.
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