Data journalism is a growing field, and as the practice becomes more sophisticated, data journalists are facing all the challenges of modern software development. In order to manage the increasingly complexity of data projects, journalists will need good tools. Muck is a prototype tool…
Muck, a research project sponsored by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, seeks to design and prototype a system for authoring data-driven stories. The entire computational process behind producing a…
For any journalist writing about science or technology it is not uncommon to hear scientists and subject experts complain about how news organizations get facts or interpretations wrong in their stories. With technology today becoming more ubiquitous than ever before, there is an…
We live in a world of computers: there is a computer in our bag and there is one in our pockets. Increasingly today, we put a computer on four wheels and call it a car. We step into a computer animated box to ascend to the Nth floor of a building —…
Given that an entire afternoon was dedicated to a “Robot Journalism Bootcamp” at the Global Editors Network Summit this week, it’s probably safe to say that automated journalism has finally gone mainstream — hey it’s only taken close to 40 years since the first story…
Last week I attended the OpenVis Conference in Boston, a smorgasbord of learning dedicated to exploring the use and application of data visualization on the open web, so basically not using proprietary standards. It was hard not to get excited, with a headline keynote like Mike…
Data is like a freeze-dried version of reality, abstracted sometimes to the point where it can be hard to recognize and understand. It needs some rehydration before it becomes tasty (or even just palatable) storytelling material again —…
In Germany, a man recently won a legal battle with Google over the fact that when you searched for his name, the autocomplete suggestions connected him to “scientology” and “fraud,” — two things that he felt had defamatory…
A collection of online resources about data journalism:
+ The Data Journalism Handbook
+ Jonathan Stray’s Computational Journalism Class. Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, Spring 2013