[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 19, Issue 21

Miguel Paz ohmyblog at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 19:50:12 UTC 2012


Dwight
Dan Cow from Propublica said it better than I could in this post:

*Fashionistas (and bureaucrats and journalists): Please learn to code*
Link:
http://danwin.com/2012/05/fashionistas-and-bureaucrats-and-journalists-please-learn-to-code/


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>    1. Journalists may learn how to code, but how do we measure how
>       well they report? (Dwight Hines)
>    2. Re: Infogr.am charts (Moritz Jaeger)
>    3. [JOB] Looking for a data blogger for our non-existent startup
>       blog (Debayan Banerjee)
>    4. Re: data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20
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> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:48:50 -0400
> From: Dwight Hines <dwight.hines at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ddj] Journalists may learn how to code, but how do we
>         measure how well they report?
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> It is well and good that we discuss journalists learning how to code, but
> that is secondary to how well they report events.  For example, for many
> events that are only covered by one journalist from a biased paper or,
> heaven forbid, a journalist with a bias, we now have full videos (city and
> county and parish meetings) to compare to the reports that are published.
>  The problem is comparing the two.   It is easy enough to download the
> printed report but it takes massive amounts of time to transcribe a video
> of just a two hour meeting.
>
> Could journalists learn how to code some type of sampling method that could
> be used to reliably compare written to video reports?  I would think that
> if the written reports are wildly different from the videos, that could be
> an excellent predicter of newspaper failure, if not financial struggles.
>
> Related topic is anyone on this list a member of Journet (United Nations)
> group?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Dwight Hines
> IndyMedia
> Maine
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> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:48:08 +0200
> From: Moritz Jaeger <mjaeger at moritzjaeger.de>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] Infogr.am charts
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> Hi Uldis,
> what License are you using? Can we change, for example translate those
> infographics without violating the License?
>
> Cheers, Moritz
> Moritz Jaeger
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> 2012/10/24 Uldis <uldis at infogr.am>:
> > lol:)
> >
> > I certainly didn't intend that smell.
> >
> > I'm ex-journalist and I run a startup that does tools for data visualization
> > for news media. I don't sell anything but ask for a feedback.
> >
> > Uldis
> >
> > +371 26490983 | @uldis | www.infogr.am
> >
> > On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
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> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Damon Allen Davison <damon at allolex.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > This smells like spam.
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE#t=2m23 ?
> >
> > --
> > Damon Allen Davison
> > http://allolex.net
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> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 07:48, Uldis wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > just a week ago I wrote about update for infogr.am (http://infogr.am) to
> > create amazing infographics. Now I wanted to share our new Infogr.am
> > (http://Infogr.am) charts - http://infogr.am/online-charts We designed them
> > for data journalists as a free online data publishing tool.
> >
> > Please let me know your feedback and feel free to share with colleagues.
> >
> >
> > Uldis
> > co-founder of infogr.am (http://infogr.am)
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> > +371 26490983 | @uldis | www.infogr.am (http://www.infogr.am)
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:59:12 +0530
> From: Debayan Banerjee <debayan at uberlabs.net>
> Subject: [ddj] [JOB] Looking for a data blogger for our non-existent
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> Hi!
>
> I am a co-founder at http://www.gazemetrix.com. We look at pictures and
> videos being uploaded by users on the internet, and figure out what
> brands/products they contain in them. We have a lot of such data (millions
> of pictures per day) which needs to be analysed, visualised and blogged on
> our yet-to-be-launched blog.
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> We are based in San Francisco, CA, and this position will be part-time for
> now.
>
> Kindly mail me if you are interested in this offer at
> founders at gazemetrix.com
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> --
> Thanks,
> Debayan Banerjee
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> noted with thanks?
> ?
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> ?  1. Journalists Learn How to Code (Hanna McLean)
> ?  2. Re: Journalists Learn How to Code (Sean Lee)
> ?  3. Re: Journalists Learn How to Code (Saul Lozano)
> ?  4. Re: Journalists Learn How to Code (David Weisz)
> ?  5. Re: Journalists Learn How to Code (Katerina Economakou)
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> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:14:00 +0200
> From: Hanna McLean <mclean at ejc.net>
> Subject: [ddj] Journalists Learn How to Code
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I just thought I would inform all of the journalists in this list, who need
> or want to learn how to code, of this handy guide that can be found
> here<http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/the_journalists_learn_to_code_resource_guide>.
> Happy coding :)
>
> Cheers,
> Hanna
> ===
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> From: Sean Lee <iseansay at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] Journalists Learn How to Code
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> great stuff, thx;)
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Hanna McLean <mclean at ejc.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I just thought I would inform all of the journalists in this list, who
> > need or want to learn how to code, of this handy guide that can be found
> > here<http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/the_journalists_learn_to_code_resource_guide>.
> > Happy coding :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hanna
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> From: Saul Lozano <saul.lozano at gmail.com>
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> Awesome!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Saul
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Hanna McLean <mclean at ejc.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I just thought I would inform all of the journalists in this list, who
> > need or want to learn how to code, of this handy guide that can be found
> > here<http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/the_journalists_learn_to_code_resource_guide>.
> > Happy coding :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hanna
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> From: David Weisz <davidaaronweisz at gmail.com>
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> Thanks, Hannah! Definitely a great resource.
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Saul Lozano <saul.lozano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Awesome!
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Saul
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Hanna McLean <mclean at ejc.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I just thought I would inform all of the journalists in this list, who
> >> need or want to learn how to code, of this handy guide that can be found
> >> here<http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/the_journalists_learn_to_code_resource_guide>.
> >> Happy coding :)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Hanna
> >> ===
> >>
> >> Hanna McLean | Community Manager | European Journalism Centre
> >> Sonnevillelunet 10, 6221KT Maastricht, The Netherlands
> >> Tel. : +31.433.254.030 | Fax : +32.240.042.20
> >> Email : mclean at ejc.net
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> From: Katerina Economakou <katoiko at yahoo.com>
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> Thank you, that's a great tip!
>
> Katerina
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> Awesome!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Saul
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Hanna McLean <mclean at ejc.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> >I just thought I would inform all of the journalists in this list, who need or want to learn how to code, of this handy guide that can be found here. Happy coding :)?
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Hanna
> >
> >===
> >
> >
> >Hanna McLean | Community Manager | European Journalism Centre
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