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WSJ goes the distance with the Google Maps API
A good piece on the googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com on how the Wall Street Journal crew created a fine set of maps illustrating various major-city marathons. Go here for complete piece. WSJ goes the...
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Ramping up your statistical skills
From FlowingData…. Statistical literacy guides for the basics Sep 3, 2010 to Statistics | Post on Twitter “You can get pretty far with data graphics with just limited statistical knowledge, but if you...
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Race and ethnicity mapped by block
Census tract data and maps, while better than nothing, can often deceive because the size of the tract is greatly influenced by population size, not area. It is not uncommon that natural and...
View ArticleAgent-Based Modelling: The Next 15 Years
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk ) has been around for 13 years, and it has become increasingly important for analytic journalists who believe...
View ArticleAnother fine tool for slicing and dicing data….
From Flowingdata.com ….. Find the names in your data with Mr. People November 8, 2010 to Online Applications | Post on Twitter Inspired by Shan Carter's simple data converter, appropriately named Mr....
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An up-dated data clean-up tool at Google-Refine
Check out Google-Refine at http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ google-refine Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) Project Home Downloads Wiki...
View ArticleWeb Data Extractors
Marcus Zillman's research efforts bring to the surface a ton of tools that journalists can use, and especially so this month. Check out the first 8 pages in his PDF on “Web Data Extractors” at...
View ArticleAn AJ Watershed
This is a great weekend to be in Raleigh, North Carolina. Forget about the BBQ. Instead, head to the annual NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) confab at the Raleigh Marriott...
View ArticleDavid Rumsey Map Collection adds 1,634 new maps
From Rumsey's site: http://networkedblogs.com/fBgu5 1,634 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the online collection to over 26,000 maps and images....
View ArticleThe 11th Crime Mapping Research Conference
The National Inst. of Justice was one of the early adopters of GIS perspectives and technologies. For the past decade, it has funded impressive research in the field, the results of which typically...
View ArticleWashington Post Build App for Breaking News Freelancers
So cool: The @washingtonpost Talent Network. Like Uber or Task Rabbit, but to hire freelance reporters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A4ORGOYRMjE Retweet from Mariam Rom
View ArticleNew skills for new challenges
May 18, 2015 “In this era, when data journalism is seen as a way forward to deal with difficult issues in a balanced, unbiased manner, it is important to understand the rules that govern statistical...
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Webinar: Getting your data into R
Webinar Invitation Date: June 10th, 2015 Time: 11:00 AM EDT Description: You can’t use R for data analysis unless you can get your data into R. Getting your data into R can be a major hassle, so in...
View ArticleWhen data journalism meets science
We missed this when originally published last fall, but still quite timely. And we didn’t know of the existence of the International School of Science Journalism. When data journalism meets science...
View ArticleFiscal Data Visualisations
Some fascinating of data visualizations from around the world compiled by Jonathan Gray. This demonstrates that the concept “Open Data” wasn’t just discovered this year. Check out...
View ArticleExcellent progress at the City of Albuquerque’s Open Data site
Kudos to the City of Albuquerque for its ABQ Data site at http://ow.ly/OI17X Especially helpful is that it includes links to the data set’s Metadata — http://ow.ly/OI0EW Something not see enough....
View Article7/7 Webinar: Excel Basics for Analyzing Health Data
Paul Overberg is one of the very best in our business. Yeah, we’re old friends, but he’s still one of the best. Take advantage of what he will have to say. With the explosion of public health data...
View ArticleDigitalGlobe Partners With Mapbox To Launches Its Maps API
Very high quality satellite imagery integrated into the MapBox APIs and SLA: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/13/digitalglobe-partners-with-mapbox-to-launches-its-maps-api/ From the post: Most...
View ArticleWorkshop – August 16 in Santa Fe Exploring New Mexico Neighborhood Data With...
A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, PLANNERS, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, INVOLVED CITIZENS and JOURNALISTSSanta Fe – A public workshop on finding, analyzing and communicating government data will be...
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