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Know Your Stats

By Dave Stanton

Posted on July 25, 2013
Read Dave Stanton’s essential primer on basic statistical principles and you won’t get caught with your data pants down.
Drawing Conclusions from Data

By Jonathan Stray

Posted on July 25, 2013
In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.
The Perils of Polling Twitter

By Jacob Harris

Posted on July 18, 2013
Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less than ideal.
Projects from the OpenNews-MIT Hack Day

By Erin Kissane

Posted on June 25, 2013
On the weekend leading into the Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews and MIT sponsored a hack day focused on data liberation and housed at the MIT Media Lab.
Handling Data about Race and Ethnicity

By Matt Waite

Posted on June 20, 2013
Or, how Matt Waite got his butt kicked.
Creating an API of Veterans Affairs’ data

By Cole Goins, Erika Owens, and Shane Shifflett

Posted on May 28, 2013
The Center for Investigative Reporting recently released an API of data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which it compiled in reporting on a backlog of disability claims.
What You Need Is a News Peg

By Ben Welsh

Posted on May 22, 2013
Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg
Predicting the Future, Elections Edition

By Jeremy Bowers

Posted on May 16, 2013
Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.
Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 2

By Adrian Holovaty

Posted on May 9, 2013
Second in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
Finding Stories in the Structure of Data

By Matt Waite

Posted on May 2, 2013
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics

By Jacqui Maher

Posted on April 25, 2013
Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.
Freeing the Plum Book

By Derek Willis

Posted on April 11, 2013
Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.
Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience

By Tiff Fehr

Posted on April 5, 2013
The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.
Introducing Tabula

By Manuel Aristarán and Mike Tigas

Posted on April 3, 2013
A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.
How the Data Sausage Gets Made

By Jacob Harris

Posted on March 28, 2013
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think

By Adrian Holovaty

Posted on March 11, 2013
First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective