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Check out Google-Refine at http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ google-refine Google Refine,a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) Project Home Downloads Wiki Issues Source Summary | Updates | People #downloadbox{overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;}#owners a,#members a{white-space:nowrap;[...] This is a few months old,but we're wondering if any readers have used Hive or tried to deploy it in newsrooms,where “exploring and analyzing data…[is] everyone's responsibility.” Distributed Data Analysis at Facebook Share Tuesday,August 11,2009 at 2:53pm Exploring and analyzing data isn’t the responsibility of one team here [...] FlowingData passes along the link to this fine piece of work by Ben Fry. “Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas”Journos could be using a similar approach to analyze the evolution of the ideas of public officials. Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas Posted by Nathan / Sep 7,2009 [...] Nathan,over at Flowingdata.com,posts this interesting data visualization from the Baylor College of Medicine. No,it probably doesn't give a science writer a story in itself,but the concept of taking a complex data set and illustrating that data with the right tool —in this case,Circos –good generate some interesting reporting [...] Handicapping the Horserace
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 …[...] What have we here? Cooperation between two academic departments in the same university? Largely unheard of in most schools,but it has happened with positive results in Hong Kong. 23 Nov 2007 http://www.hku.edu/press/news_detail_5671.html Power Distribution of the Four Political Camps,Seeing the 2007 District Council Election Results with Maps The Department of [...] 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 [...] FYI:From the O'Reilly Radar “Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics Posted:11 Jul 2007 03:01 AM CDT By Jesse Robbins I presented last week at the OECD World Forum in Istanbul along with Professor Hans Rosling,Mike Arrington,John Gage and teams from MappingWorlds,Swivel (disclosure:I am an adviser to Swivel) and Many Eyes. We were the “Web2.0 Delegation”and it was an incredible experience. The Istanbul Declaration signed at the conference calls for governments to make their statistical data freely available online as a “public good.”The declaration also calls for new measures of happiness and well-being,going …[...] This weekend,friend-of-the-IAJ Joe Traub sent the following to the editor of the New York Times. Here's the story Joe is talking about:“White House….“ To the Editor:The headline on page 1 on May 26 states“White House Said to Debate '08 Cut in Troops by 50%”The article reports a possible reduction to 100,000 troopsfrom [...] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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