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“So many people who work professionally on the Internet really don’t know, until too late, that their work is this fragile.”
“I like to talk about it as reading today’s news on tomorrow’s computer.”
From livestreaming to livetweeting, quote cards to results maps, this is how some top outlets are thinking about serving audiences on election night — just in time for Super Tuesday.
The Des Moines Register, the Associated Press, and WNYC are among organizations receiving a total of $3.2 million for projects designed to increase voter turnout and develop more tools to analyze campaign finance disclosures.
Journalists from rival outlets are pursuing the dream of “pluggable data,” partnering to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign finance and lobbying data.
The annual gathering of data journalists, stats junkies, and other assorted investigators just wrapped up in Louisville. Here are some of the highlights from Chrys Wu’s annual summary.
The videos are up, and now’s the time to revisit some of the lessons learned at this year’s conference. Adrienne LaFrance
April 19, 2011