I guess that at this point you've all read
the article about data journalism at the Harvard's Nieman Lab's website. I'd just want to recommend that you also see
Zeynep Tufeczi's analysis of FiveThirtyEight's predictive models for the World Cup, Mark Berman's hilarious spoof
‘President Obama and the horse mask person: An investigation involving data and charts.’ Derik Harris'
‘Data journalism could use a jolt of data science,’ and
this conversation and
article about what J-schools could be teaching. Oh, and this
collection of maps (h/t
David Shiffman.)
The latest issue of the German magazine
Message, which covers topics related to journalism and the news media, focuses on information graphics and visualization. I wrote a short piece for it, titled
‘Why Visualizing Information Matters.’
Finally, after the Nieman thing went live,
something funny happened on Twitter between me,
Aron Pilhofer, and
Andrew Losowsky. I really do my best to avoid being grumpy (the
article ends in a positive note!) —but I guess that it's all part of the linear model:
