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The lightweight form of "data-driven journalism". Express delta values instead of insight. Use clipart instead of info-graphic visualizations.
by some1else 16y ago
The lightweight form of "data-driven journalism". Express delta values instead of insight. Use clipart instead of info-graphic visualizations.
- jackfoxy 16y agoMy long-running objection to this kind of quicky journalism exactly. No detailed attribution, no drill-down availability, no footnotes. I developed facster.com to overcome these and other limitations, the goal being to provide research-quality stats from the government and other sources, make the information searchable, browseable, and joinable. I haven't had the time to do much work on it since 2005, so the most recent abstract I loaded is from 2003. Also in some migration the search index got damaged. A lot of search terms are missing, but I've boosted repairing the search index on my to do list.
- mtr 16y agoIn addition the data isn't normalized. The rate of something could be decreasing year-over-year but due to population increase the quantity continues to increase. Ignoring the normalized data helps journalists create sensationalistic headlines.
- protomyth 16y agoAs "journalism" I find it lacking, but it might be fun to write a web widget that would put one stat delta per day.