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By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch@AnnaBoikoW To understand your data, let’s go back to grade-school science class. Remember when you learned about the forest, and all the animals that call it home? The […]
By Sarah Morris@smorris198888 In The Art of Requesting and Negotiating Data, David Hunn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Jennifer LaFleur of ProPublica talked through some strategies for getting data. […]
By Mayra Cruz @MayraC27 News stories can be deepened through data, said speakers in the "Using data journalism to investigate the news" panel. “News happens fast,” Arizona Daily Star Rob O’Dell reporter said. […]
By Mayra Cruz @MayraC27 News stories should avoid boring readers by not becoming jargon-by-numbers accounts of events, Anthony DeBarros of USA Today said at the "Making sure you tell a story" […]
By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch@AnnaBoikoW Tweets are tempting but tricky for data journalists. “Twitter data is probably some of the hardest data you can work with,” Jacob Harris, senior software architect at The […]
By Jon McClure @JonRMcClure Paul Overberg of USA Today and Brad Guilmino of HNTB Corporation discussed the potential stories coming from the decline of two long-monopolized government services: road maintenance and mail […]
By Hilary Niles @nilesmedia Some of the pithier annectdotes from this year's conference surely belong to Tony DeBarros, Ron Nixon and Ben Welsh, for their presentations during "Making sure you […]
By Jessica Pupovac@jessicapupovac IRE Executive Director Mark Horvit and training director Megan Luther led a whirlwind tour of 25 data-driven stories during their “Year in CAR 2011” presentation, paying special […]
By Hilary Niles @nilesmedia Spain is an “information black hole,” journalist Mar Cabra said during the Against All -Spanish- Odds. She and software developer David Cabo are taking suggestions on […]
By Hilary Niles@nilesmedia When you think of a company, don’t think of something with a physical presence, like a storefront or a corporate headquarters. That’s just not how companies are […]
