March 20th, 2015
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The Guardian’s James Ball offers his advice for what journalism students and schools can do to help themselves and the industry.

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April 11th, 2014
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How to Break News While You Sleep

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Ken Schwenke explains his Quakebot that made headlines when it scooped every human reporter about an earthquake in LA.

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Why do I get a byline on these stories? Because in a very real sense, I have written them. I wrote the template, I determined—using both my and my editors’ judgment—the thresholds at which to report them, and I put together the machinery to write them. I’ve interviewed folks at the USGS and I’ve interviewed the data. The bot is just a codification of the things I would do as a regular reporter trying to get the basic facts up.

Two questions for every news organisation:

  1. Do you have someone in your newsroom who can do that kind of work?
  2. Can your content management system deal with this sort of input? 
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April 11th, 2014
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Zoom centerforinvestigativereporting: “ How we mapped the U.S.-Mexico border fence CIR journalists spent more than three years trying to obtain accurate, detailed mapping data showing the location of the border fence system. The result: We now have what...

centerforinvestigativereporting:

How we mapped the U.S.-Mexico border fence

CIR journalists spent more than three years trying to obtain accurate, detailed mapping data showing the location of the border fence system. 

The result: We now have what is – as far as we know – the most complete and detailed map of the border fence that is publicly available.

Our Senior News Applications Developer Michael Corey explains how we did it.

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March 20th, 2014
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The recent boom in “data-driven” journalism projects is exciting. It can elevate our knowledge, enliven statistics, and make us all more numerate. But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias.
The problem with data journalism - Quartz

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June 10th, 2013
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Zoom tomszekeres: “ The Guardian’s Data Journalism workflow. ”

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The Guardian’s Data Journalism workflow.

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May 14th, 2013
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We’re thrilled that Nate Silver will keynote at 2013 Online News Association Conference this year. The data forecaster at FiveThirtyEight.com will join us at ONA13 for a conversation on data journalism. Read more on journalists.org. Registration for...

We’re thrilled that Nate Silver will keynote at 2013 Online News Association Conference this year. The data forecaster at FiveThirtyEight.com will join us at ONA13 for a conversation on data journalism. Read more on journalists.org.

Registration for ONA13 is open, and you should register now so you get the early-bird discount. 

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April 11th, 2013
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Zoom AP-Google scholar John Osborn lays out why J-schools need a more structured track for computer-assisted reporters. What should journalists be learning to put them on the “computer-assisted reporting” track? Osborn wishes that schools would ”introduce...

AP-Google scholar John Osborn lays out why J-schools need a more structured track for computer-assisted reporters.

What should journalists be learning to put them on the “computer-assisted reporting” track? Osborn wishes that schools would  ”introduce or reinforce core skills like data analysis, data visualization, Python for scraping and automation, front-end development to create awesome interfaces to explore data and other media, and web design aesthetics.”

Read more: J-Schools, Invest in CAR 

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March 21st, 2013
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There’s nothing less funny than listening to a journalism professor joking that we’re all in this field because we can’t do math.

Kevin Schaul, AP-Google Scholar and Data/Web Dev Intern at the Star Tribune, discusses the importance of data and data journalism in his latest blog for ONA. 

Read more: Overcome your fear of numbers, uncover great stories like these - Online News Association

(Source: journalists.org)

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March 4th, 2013
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Notes from #NICAR13

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Journalists and technologists gathered in Louisville, KY this weekend to explore computer-assisted reporting at NICAR 2013. Throughout the conference, tools and techniques that can improve data-assisted reporting were highlighted. 

Chys Wu pulled together a massive list of resources from the conference, including presentations, tutorials, lightning talks, tools and software to check out. 

Here’s a collaborative set of notes from sessions at the conference. 

ONA Board member Greg Linch collected tweets from the conference. 

The Tow Center has a list of resources on data journalism. 

Were you at #NICAR13? What were sessions or topics most inspired you? 

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February 21st, 2013
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“ My sense is that most journalists who’ve worked with a spreadsheet – knowingly, or unconsciously – kind of “get” the concepts… However, where the conceptual meets the practical, there can be some bumpy landings. ” Phillip Smith, a digital...

My sense is that most journalists who’ve worked with a spreadsheet – knowingly, or unconsciously – kind of “get” the concepts… However, where the conceptual meets the practical, there can be some bumpy landings. 

Phillip Smith, a digital publishing consultant, provides great tips for journalists working with spreadsheets and databases to improve the way they handle data in How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers | PBS.

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