Tag: data
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Chicago Way May Come to Have Enlighted Meaning
Image via Wikipedia At the OpenGov Chicago meetings, there is energy and excitement. Carlson, Tolva, and Goldstein have all attended. As a journalist teacher, I find encouragement to get involved with the data. And that’s what I’ll be doing this semester. there’s something new going on in the Windy City that’s worth sharing with the…
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Drunk with Data, Economist at Google is on a Roll
Google also conducted 5,000 search experiments last year, which led to 400 search improvements (and the same again for ads experiments). Such insistent experimentation is an academic means to a capitalist end. Or, as Varian puts it: “Google is like a university, but with money.” It’s a cheering thought – and possibly why, in a…
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J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer on the Future of News
In this future, both professional and amateur journalists will need to engage in more than just journalism, however. They must engage in new kinds of “news work” to serve their audiences. News work? Fact entrepreneurs? Credit goes to Columbia University doctoral student Chris Anderson for these new terms. They help us understand that journalism in…
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“Communicative” information makes your point
Paul Bradshaw, a fellow E-Media Tidbitter, wrote about the Guardian’s database driven fantasy football (Paul is from the UK — “soccer” to us in the USA) as a good example of how newspaper organizations can make their websites into desirable platforms for users, as well as simple destinations. Furthermore, he makes an important point about…
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Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Are any reporters or news sites using AWS cloud-based applications? Seems like it might have potential.
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Are any reporters or news sites using AWS cloud-based applications? Seems like it might have potential.
Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Barbara K Iverson 