When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now
available with a journalist's nose for news and her ability to tell a
compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data
Journalism Handbook, you'll explore the potential, limits, and applied
uses of this new and fascinating field.
This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the
European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched
the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques
from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data
analysts, you'll learn how data can be either the source of data
journalism or a tool with which the story is told--or both.
- Examine the use of data journalism at the BBC, the Chicago Tribune,
the Guardian, and other news organizations
- Explore in-depth case studies on elections, riots, school performance,
and corruption
- Learn how to find data from the Web, through freedom of information
laws, and by crowd sourcing
- Extract information from raw data with tips for working with numbers
and statistics and using data visualization
- Deliver data through infographics, news apps, open data platforms, and
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