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Articles tagged data journalism (27)
April 10, 2013
April 3, 2013
Over 2.5 million files analyzed by a global team of journalists reveal financial information about politicians, fundraisers. and celebrities from over 170 different countries.
March 7, 2013
A grant from Knight’s Prototype Fund will pay for a council of North Texas governments to render crime data from dozens of sources into a format journalists and the public can use.
February 25, 2013
The agency, home to more than 500 terabytes of electronic files alone, faces some of the same problems that data journalists do.
December 13, 2012
Amy Webb, Scott Klein, and Jim Frederick share some of the big ideas they’ll take away from the year.
October 18, 2012
Crowdsourcing and computer intelligence help reverse-engineer campaign targeting.
July 18, 2012
The three-year grant means ProPublica will add staff to its news applications team.
July 11, 2012
TPM’s publisher says mobile apps must add value, and can’t just replicate the desktop or laptop experience.
May 30, 2012
In the start of a regular column for Nieman Lab, Jonathan Stray argues that a too-narrow definition of the work of journalism limits the field’s potential.
May 29, 2012
Adding metadata to hyperlinks, finding stories in ordinary datasets, providing context for impossibly big numbers.
May 23, 2012
One of Argentina’s largest newspapers is creating and sharing databases with the public, while training its newsroom to dig deep into data.
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