Data

Last year, Michael Phillips, a data science intern at Cambridge Analytica, posted the following scripts to a set of “work samples” on his personal GitHub account.

Four years ago, I watched Nic Newman present his latest research at a BBC social media conference I’d helped organise. (You can watch his session on YouTube here). He emphasised to the audience that search engines were no longer the primary…

On Thursday, June 4, 2015, we hosted Tow Fellows Michael Keller and Brian Abelson to present their Tow-Knight paper, NewsLynx: A Tool for Newsroom Impact Measurement. The release of the paper coincides with the conclusion of nearly 2 years…

+ The Data Journalism Handbook

+ Jonathan Stray’s Computational Journalism Class. Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, Spring 2013

The Pew Research Center is launching a data blog. The nonpartisan think tank is currently recruiting a senior writer to lead this new project which will produce editorial content based on the data Pew produces, president Alan Murray said.

Tow on gun permit data

The question of whether the Journal News should have published an interactive map with addresses of gun permit owners…

The archived video of this event can also be accessed here.

A panel of six of journalism’s movers and shakers convened at Columbia Journalism School on March 28 to debate the current state of data-centered reporting and interactive visualizations.