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Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide, 3rd edition


Chapter 1
High-Tech Journalism: What Computer-Assisted Reporting Is and Why Journalists Use It

Data referred to in the chapter


Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data
This is the record layout of a file of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, one of the more difficult databases to look at. A record layout shows you the categories of information and how they appear. Here is the data itself. Please open the file in Excel.
Excel file
CSV file for PC
CSV file for Mac
Don't get discouraged by all the columns and numbers. We will return to this database later in the book and study its layout and uses.

Please go to www.nicar.org/data/frb/ to read about it.
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