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The Message
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So when doing visualizations, you have to be mindful of what you are trying to tell your audience. Sure they may look cool to show off and get the reader’s attention, but they also have to a purpose or you will lose your audience now and potentially for the long-term.…
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What you Working With
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Working with data is a completely different story for journalists (some pun intended). You do not have to talk to too many people to gather what you need. In addition to agencies that you could mail or go to in person to request information from, there are actually plenty of…
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Do you Understand the Data that is Coming out of my Mouth?
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This week’s discussion has been about understanding the data you have gathered to report it to the audience. The last few weeks have built around the look and feel of visualizations but what are they really telling us? Is it possible that the data can be faulty in in what…
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Data Journalism used in the Newsrooms
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The past few weeks in regards to data journalism there has only been mentions and predictions of how actual newsrooms would function with this new endeavor. Well this week, the readings have discussed how newsrooms actually look when applying data journalism as apart of their news cycle. The scenarios all…
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Testing Infographic
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So I looked up how to make an infographic online and came up with a few. Check them out, it’s just some stuff I played around with. NBA Career Comparison | Create Infographics
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Picture Me Coding: Big Data Visualizations
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For the past two weeks we have basically took the crash course into data journalism and may have more to go. In this current section of it, it focuses more on the visulizations that have appeared with the data which in a sense puts into visual everything that has…
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Newsroom and Data Journalism
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Last week’s readings introduced us to data journalism and what it all entails. This week is focusing on more of the application of data journalism, particularly in the newsrooms. One of the questions I proposed for the last discussion was whether or not data journalism can help alleviate news…
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Data Journalism
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Data journalism is the new thing going on in the world of reporting. What is it you ask? Pretty much finding a story from a huge set of statistics or numbers and that is an understatement. Data comes from anywhere and everywhere that it can be found. Steve Lohr…