by Nathan Smith | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
HW3 Andrea Johnson “Numbers in the Newsroom” It’s good to explain the context of numbers. I read an article from the New York Times that caught my attention because the story covered Spanish-speakers in the U.S. and compared it to the number of Spanish-speakers in...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
Andrea Elvir Mussenden’s mistake no. 5 is something I had never thought of when dealing with data. It is easy to think that the data should be able to speak for itself since, as he mentioned in no. 1, we often think that data, unlike humans, cannot be flawed....
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
Kayla Nunez Here are two things I found interesting. The first thing that I found interesting was mistake number one in the article on data reporting mistakes. This reminded me of the discussion we had in class the other day about how numbers do sometimes lie. ...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
“Use round numbers where possible, particularly to avoid a false appearance of precision.” – IRE Beat Book I found this interesting because most of us learned in math to be more precise. “Regardless of how simple or complex your data set seems,...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
1. The notes about checking the file type before really getting to work were helpful. Stuff like that always messes me up when I’m working in photoshop and having to figure out how to combine different types of images. I assume it’s sort of the same idea....
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