Data Journalism

Data Cleaning With Muck

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…

Reducing barriers between programmers and non-programmers in the newsroom

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…

Tow Tea: Parsing Tech Talk

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…

The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism

Journalists have been using data in their stories for as long as the profession has existed. A revolution in computing in the 20th century created opportunities for data integration into investigations, as journalists began to bring technology into…

Think about data from the beginning of the story, says Cheryl Phillips

“Stories can be told in many different ways,” said Cheryl Phillips. “A sidebar that may once have been a 12-inch text piece is now a timeline, or a map.”

Data skills make you a better journalist, says ProPublica’s Sisi Wei