by Nathan Smith | Feb 14, 2017 | Daily-Class, Spring_2017
All Fulbright faculty and staff have been blind-copied on this message from Teresa Waddell, Director of Technology for the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. twaddel@uark.edu arscsup@uark.edu http://askit.uark.edu Subject: Phishing...
by Nathan Smith | Feb 12, 2017 | Student_Work
It was interesting to read in “Data in the News: Wikileaks” case study about how the journalists were able to create their own database. Using a massive Excel file that they received with over 92,201 rows of data, they were also able to narrow down...
by Nathan Smith | Feb 12, 2017 | Student_Work
When I think of data journalism I usually think of statistics found in an article or an accompanying graphic but BBC has found incredibly creative ways to represent data. Their interactive graphics such as the crash reports and the world’s population graphic are more...
by Nathan Smith | Feb 12, 2017 | Student_Work
What I gathered mostly from these case studies is that using data in the newsroom to tell stories takes a lot of time and teamwork to put together. While all of the same practices from other forms of journalism are present, these case studies are highly visual and...
by Nathan Smith | Feb 12, 2017 | Student_Work
Upon reading the case studies, there were several points that could be gathered, ones that seemed to be stressed more than just once. The importance of organization and accuracy seemed to be a common theme throughout the several texts. Obviously, the authors of these...
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