No story? Then check out Swivel,a web site rich with data —and the display of data —that you didn't know about and which is pregnant with possibilities for a good news feature. And often a news feature that could be localized.Here,for example,is a posting from the SECRECY REPORT CARD 2005 [...]
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Paul Parker,of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal,is the Quick and an impressive list of folks on the state's voter registration rolls are the Dead this week. Below is a note Parker posted to the NICAR-L listserv. The great thing about this is the recipe Parker provides for an analytic journalists'cookbook. Said he:Nothing new or innovative,but we ran a dead voters story today,and it's getting tons of buzz. I would recommend —no,URGE —everyone on the list do the same for your area. Here's the link:http://www.projo.com/extra/election/content/deadvoters9_11-09-06_DN2P2GR.33b46ef.html [...] Eric Lipton has a piece in Wedneday's (4 Oct. 2006) NYTimes about some “new”research efforts to come up with software “that would let the [U.S.] government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas.” (See “Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.“) Surely this is [...] Another unique investigation by The New York Times gets A1 play in this Sunday's edition (1 Oct. 2006) under the hed “Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court's Rulings.” Adam Liptak and Janet Roberts (who probably did the heavy lifting on the data analysis) took a long-term look at who contributed to the campaigns of Ohio's [...] Any discipline always has subsets of argument,typically about definitions,methodologies,process or significance. Statistics,of course,is no different. Below is an interesting article from the Washington Monthly about what constitutes statistical significance. The article is OK,but the commentary below it even better. See http://www.blogware.com/admin/index.cgi/cmd=post_article LIES,DAMN LIES,AND….Via Kieran Healy,here's something [...] Eight or nine years back we attended one of the first Crime Mapping conferences sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and found it to be one of the most creative and practical events of this type. (We also have very high regard for the ESRI Users Conference and the Special Libraries Assoc. meetings.) So [...] Least any of us think that Social Network Analysis is something new,please take the time to read this wonderful,albeit personal,history of the field. Edward O. Laumann,of the University of Chicago,has been swimming in these waters for more than 40 years. His address to the International Network of Social Network Analysis,[...] Regular readers know that the IAJ has long been interested in the quality of the data in public records databases. The NY Times of 12 July 2006 carries a front-page story by Eric Lipton on just how bad the data is in the “National Asset Database.” As Lipton's story points out: “The [...] “The (Ongoing) Vitality of Mythical Numbers<http://www.slate.com/id/2144508/ >This article serves as a valuable reminder that we should viewall statistics,no matter how frequently they are used inpublic arguments,with skepticism until we know who producedthem and how they were derived.”From:Neat New Stuff I Found This Week <http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html>Copyright,Marylaine Block,1999-2006. [...] Steve Bass,a PC World columnist,had an item this week that reminds us that a good analytic journalist is always thinking about what is NOT in the data. He writes: Risky Business:Stealth Surfing at Work Not long after [...] | ||||||
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