by Nathan Smith | Aug 28, 2016 | Fall 2016 Student Work
A list in Part 2, Where Blacks Bank, is pretty informative and gives the reader a good idea of how the two black-owned bank’s rates of non-white customers compare to their competition. However, I noticed that the list is using numbers from a market study that was...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 28, 2016 | Fall 2016 Student Work
Questions for the Reading Homework Due 8/29 How can the use of percentage data be distributed in a story effectively so that the reader can understand the context of the numbers? Is it acceptable to use numbers when talking about money considering that inflation can...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 27, 2016 | Fall 2016 Daily-Class
1) Review Quiz 2) Review HMDA data guide –Know your data, its scope, currency and omissions. 3) Rates and Ratios 4) Continue Work With Data from HMDA website Cohen, Numbers in the Newsroom. Rates and Ratios. –Calculate a rate: NICAR Coursepack...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 26, 2016 | Fall 2016 Daily-Class
Thursday, Sept. 1 1) Review Reading How to Avoid 10 Common Mistakes In Data Reporting AP Stylebook on Data Journalism Example of a data journalism project gone wrong: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/gdelt-decontextualized-data/...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 25, 2016 | Fall 2016 Student Work
Reading Questions: What kind of reasons did banks give for the discrepancies in lending practices to white and black borrowers? Did the researchers find these reasons to be valid in reality? What steps did Dedman regarding data on rapidly growing Atlanta...
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