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Nathan, the chap who curates the valuable blog Flowing Data, offers up a bit of hope for journalists who are worried about their employment futures and yet have invested in learning methods of data analysis. When thinking about re-inventing ourselves, consider the phrase “data scientist.”
Rise of the Data Scientist
As we've all read by now, Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians. Obviously, I whole-heartedly … [...]
Another interesting post from “FlowingData”
“Interaction Design Pilot Year Churns Out Great Student Projects
In a collaborative initiative between Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and The Danish Design School, the Interaction Design Pilot Year brings together students and faculty from various disciplines for a unique [...]
IAJ co-founder Steve Ross has long argued that Craig's List HAS NOT contributed in a major way to the decline of North American newspaper advertising revenues. Here's his latest analysis:
This isn't rocket science. Craig's List had NOTHING to do with a supposed decline in classified ad revenue.
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It’s human nature: Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the other candidate’s closet. Or, we can learn from serious journalism to tap into the growing number of digital tools at hand and see what is really going on … [...]
The NYTimes moves an interesting short today describing how a couple of economists did some creative analysis suggesting that Oprah was worth a million-plus primary votes for Obama.
MEDIA TALK Endorsement From Winfrey Quantified: A Million Votes
By BRIAN STELTER Published: August 10, 2008
Presidential candidates make the most of celebrity supporters, showing them [...]
A helpful post from Nathan at FlowingData
New Version of Flare Visualization Toolkit Released Posted Jul 31, 2008 to Software, Visualization by Nathan / 3 responses
A new version of Flare, the data visualization toolkit for Actionscript (which means it runs in Flash), was just released [...]
We've been a fan of the dashbroad approach for a long time because dashboard graphics can give readers a quick snapshot of multiple sets of dynamic data. Charley Kyd, who studied journalism some years back, has developed a nifty plug-and-play package — Dashbroad Kit #1 — to generate these. And below is a recent and relevant posting from Jorge Camoes that gives us some good tips on the topic.
10 tips to improve your Excel dashboard
Posted: 26 Jan 2008 06:42 PM CST
Marylaine Block's always informative “Neat New Stuff” [Neat New Stuff I Found This Week at http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html] tipped us to the DataWeb site and its interesting tool, the Data Feret (or “dataferet”).
“TheDataWeb is a network of online data libraries that the DataFerrett application accesses the data through. Data topics include, census data, economic [...]
Today, literally hundreds of square kilometers of Southern California — Los Angeles to San Diego — are burning. Some very alert newspapers and radio stations, though, are using Google Maps and a program called Twitter (www.twitter.com) to update the maps on a regular basis. A good example, I think, of applied tools of analytic [...]
We've long been intrigued with Benford's Law and its potential for Analytic Journalism. Today we ran across a new post by Charley Kyd that explains both the Law and presents some clear formulas for its application.
An Excel 97-2003 Tutorial:
Use Benford's Law with Excel To Improve Business Planning Benford's Law addresses an [...]
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