by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
One piece of advice that I didn’t think of but would be very beneficial for me as a data journalist was Sean Mussenden’s advice to index our data fields before sorting them. His idea to rank order the rows, starting from one to how ever many rows you have,...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
I think it’s really important that journalist know their source and that the information they’re getting is current and correct. If old data is used then it could mislead people to believe something that isn’t true anymore. If the data is just out...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
1) The first interesting point I read was in Sean Mussenden’s 10 common mistakes in data journalism. The first common mistake was “don’t overestimate the meaning of your data”. My first question last week on data journalism was if data...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
Interesting Topics (8.30.17) Data homework I liked the example from the IRE Beat Book: Numbers in the Newsroom page. I liked how they made the ratio for crimes per 1,000 people. I think it’s important to remember that data is only as good as how it is collected like...
by Wells | Aug 30, 2017 | Student_Work
Here are two points I thought were important to know as a journalist: “The data is only as good as how it’s collected.” It’s important as a researcher to understand the limitations of a dataset, especially if it misleads people or misinterprets...
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