Learning
Learning The Times Regrets the Programmer Error
Jake Harris opens a serious barrel of monkeys about when and how to issue corrections for data journalism.
Learning Kill All Your Darlings
Matt Waite on what to do when things don’t work out like you planned.
Learning People Power Prevails!
John Keefe on tracking the cicada pestilence with open source sensor journalism and crowdsourced data collection
Learning Telling Your Boss “No”
Matt Waite says just because you can make it doesn’t mean you should
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 3
Third in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
Learning They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!
Jake Harris on how dead accounts and spambots can mess with your Twitter data mojo
Learning Know Your Stats
Read Dave Stanton‘s essential primer on basic statistical principles and you won’t get caught with your data pants down.
Learning Drawing Conclusions from Data
In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.
Learning The Perils of Polling Twitter
Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less than ideal.
Learning Creating Games for Journalism
- By Sisi Wei
- Gabriel Dance, Aron Pilhofer, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora
- American Public Media, ProPublica, The New York Times
Sisi Wei makes the case for newsgames and shows you how it’s done
Learning Creating The Grid: a Story of Prototyping
Joey Marburger on the prototype process behind creating the Washington Post’s interactive, The Grid
Learning Visual Literacy in an Age of Data
Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously.
Learning Men’s NCAA Interactive: Redesigning Bracket Slightly Easier than Winning It
Sean McDade reinvents the wheel with the Associated Press Final Four Interactive.
Learning Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics
Lena Groeger‘s lowdown on how to apply classic design principles to your newfangled interactive graphics and apps.
Learning What You Need Is a News Peg
Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg
Learning Predicting the Future, Elections Edition
Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 2
Second in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
Learning Finding Stories in the Structure of Data
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
Learning London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics
Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.
