February 9th, 2012
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Journalists need to understand data if they’re going to succeed in their field. This is especially true when journalists want to check the validity of press releases, or politicians’ statements.

Kelly Fincham paraphrases Julian Todd, chief data scientist at ScraperWiki, who helps journalists understand data. 

Read more: Journalists connect the dots between data & reporting at Columbia J-school hackathon | Poynter.

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  1. talkdatatome reblogged this from onaissues and added:
    Went to this last weekend and learned to scrape in ruby, it was awesome!
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