Articles tagged: data

1. 

   Know Your Stats

   By Dave Stanton

   Posted on July 25, 2013

   Read Dave Stanton’s essential primer on basic statistical principles and you won’t get caught with your data pants down.

2. 

   Drawing Conclusions from Data

   By Jonathan Stray

   Posted on July 25, 2013

   In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.

3. 

   The Perils of Polling Twitter

   By Jacob Harris

   Posted on July 18, 2013

   Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less than ideal.

4. 

   Projects from the OpenNews-MIT Hack Day

   By Erin Kissane

   Posted on June 25, 2013

   On the weekend leading into the Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews and MIT sponsored a hack day focused on data liberation and housed at the MIT Media Lab.

5. 

   Handling Data about Race and Ethnicity

   By Matt Waite

   Posted on June 20, 2013

   Or, how Matt Waite got his butt kicked.

6. 

   Creating an API of Veterans Affairs’ data

   By Cole Goins, Erika Owens, and Shane Shifflett

   Posted on May 28, 2013

   The Center for Investigative Reporting recently released an API of data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which it compiled in reporting on a backlog of disability claims.

7. 

   What You Need Is a News Peg

   By Ben Welsh

   Posted on May 22, 2013

   Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg

8. 

   Predicting the Future, Elections Edition

   By Jeremy Bowers

   Posted on May 16, 2013

   Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.

9. 

   Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 2

   By Adrian Holovaty

   Posted on May 9, 2013

   Second in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective

10. 

    Finding Stories in the Structure of Data

    By Matt Waite

    Posted on May 2, 2013

    Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.

11. 

    London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics

    By Jacqui Maher

    Posted on April 25, 2013

    Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.

12. 

    Freeing the Plum Book

    By Derek Willis

    Posted on April 11, 2013

    Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.

13. 

    Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience

    By Tiff Fehr

    Posted on April 5, 2013

    The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.

14. Introducing Tabula

    By Manuel Aristarán and Mike Tigas

    Posted on April 3, 2013

    A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.

15. 

    How the Data Sausage Gets Made

    By Jacob Harris

    Posted on March 28, 2013

    Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.

16. 

    Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think

    By Adrian Holovaty

    Posted on March 11, 2013

    First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective