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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Between the Spreadsheets

1. October 24, 2012 03:15 PM

   A data dream team

   One example of how academic researchers and journalists can work together on data projects

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Data journalism is often a collaborative process. When Nathan Matias, a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab Center for...

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2. November 21, 2012 11:30 AM

   A database that brings radio to life

   This American Life's archive as an interactive map

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Data isn’t always a number. It can be more abstract — an mp3 file, for example. Thus, a radio show's...

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3. August 8, 2012 04:30 PM

   Between the Spreadsheets

   CJR and the Tow Center's new column on data visualization takes on the Olympics

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Numbers have always informed reporting. But in the last couple of years, the appetite for big data, coupled with a...

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4. August 22, 2012 04:45 PM

   Covering the databases

   Why journalists should be leading by example in the open data debate

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Remember that kid in second grade who wouldn't let you play with his toy truck? Chances are he grew up...

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5. November 15, 2012 11:50 AM

   Decision 2012: Who mapped it best?

   From Daily Beast's red/blue simplicity to WNYC's intricate oranges, greens, and purples

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. As CJR's Meta Newsroom showed, a glut of media outlets incorporated digital innovation into their reporting during the recent election....

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6. September 5, 2012 05:30 PM

   Designing data

   Creating informative beauty out of wind and bears

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. As Hurricane Isaac tore through the Gulf of Mexico, the Twittersphere was awash with hurricane trackers and news. Among the...

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7. October 3, 2012 03:00 PM

   Elementary data

   Even for small news outlets, creating data visualizations can be as easy as learning the ABCs

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. New York schools broke a record this week. Over 200 of them are at risk of closure because they failed...

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8. August 29, 2012 02:50 PM

   Finding the local in vast swathes of data

   An NPR map of 2010 census information is a great example of how reporters can make big data locally relevant

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Census data was made for mapping, showing the relationship between data points over a geographical area. In 2010, when the decennial census results were released, NPR worked with Development Seed, a data visualization consultancy, to map the changing US Hispanic Population, and in the process, the team may have changed infographics for the better. In the width of a browser,...

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9. October 17, 2012 05:00 PM

   More than a photograph

   The best data visualizations aren't always online

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. When it comes to numbers, sometimes less is more. Peter Ørntoft's data project for the Danish Design School — which...

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10. September 12, 2012 07:00 PM

    Putting crime on Chicago Tribune’s map

    Crime may not pay, but it does display

    By Anna Codrea-Rado

    Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. On Sunday, Homicide Watch DC, close to the brink of closure, came back to life. The independent news source for...

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11. August 15, 2012 04:30 PM

    Show, don’t tell

    Sometimes the way data is visualized is as important as the data itself

    By Anna Codrea-Rado

    Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Behind every great interactive is an even greater chart. Charting, the graphical representation of data, is the crux of any...

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12. October 10, 2012 07:50 PM

    The politics of data

    Data visualizations can have agendas

    By Anna Codrea-Rado

    Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Data can be political. Numbers, facts, and figures are just as much a source as quotes from politicians, community leaders...

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