Learning
Learning Freeing the Plum Book
Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.
Learning Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience
The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.
Learning How the Data Sausage Gets Made
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
Learning Public Info Doesn’t Always Want to Be Free
Matt Waite on how using mug shots of recently arrested perps lead to a cascading set of ethical quandaries.
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think
First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
