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/

https://storify.com/AthertonKD/if-a-data-point-has-no-context-does-it-have-any-me

GDELT

2) Import Data from HMDA website

https://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/

http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/pdf/2013guide.pdf

 3) Review Quiz

    Homework for Tuesday, Sept. 6:

Finish quiz. Due Monday, Sept. 5, 5 pm

Chapter 1 of Data Journalism Handbook

Read: HMDA Guide: http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/pdf/2013guide.pdf

Blog Post Due 5 pm Monday,  Sept. 5.

Answer these reading questions:

What is the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and what is it trying to do?

What demographic data about borrowers are banks supposed to report?

Provide an example of a bank or credit union that doesn’t have to report under this law.

Data Journalism Handbook: Who is Philip Meyer and what was his role in the history of computer assisted reporting? Identify the book he wrote and describe its significance.

Describe the debate between computer-assisted reporting and data journalism.