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This is a meta comment but I think others might have the same reaction: LA Times? Nice to see something other than "what digital camera you should buy this mont

This is a meta comment but I think others might have the same reaction: LA Times? Nice to see something other than "what digital camera you should buy this month" in a technology column from a traditional/transitioning media company. Indeed: a regular column devoted to "maps, databases and visualization". Between this and the NYT's work and writing about information graphics and data mining, the "newspaper" segment of traditional media seems to be among the most innovative.

mryan 15y ago
I had exactly the same sentiments while reading the article. A rather unexpected source for such an article. I would like to add the Guardian to your list of newspapers which make innovative use of data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
masklinn 15y ago
> Nice to see something other than "what digital camera you should buy this month" in a technology column from a traditional/transitioning media company. It's not really a column though, it's the blog of their webdev/analysis team ("Data Desk"). Ben had previously posted about them releasing a hyphenation django app.
palewire 15y ago
Thanks for the compliment. We have a small team in the newsroom that does data analysis and web development. You can keep up with all our latest work by following @LATdatadesk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LATdatadesk https://twitter.com/#!/LATdatadesk Our evergreen projects are linked from our index page at: http://datadesk.latimes.com/ http://datadesk.latimes.com/ We have a number of open-source projects on GitHub. http://github.com/datadesk/ http://github.com/datadesk/ We also have an array of tools for the routine publishing of data-driven news: graphics.latimes.com, spreadsheets.latimes.com, documents.latimes.com and timelines.latimes.com. Finally, tonight we'll be mapping live election results from the Iowa Caucuses. Check latimes.com after 5:30 pm PST.

mryan 15y ago

I had exactly the same sentiments while reading the article. A rather unexpected source for such an article. I would like to add the Guardian to your list of newspapers which make innovative use of data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data http://www.guardian.co.uk/data

masklinn 15y ago

> Nice to see something other than "what digital camera you should buy this month" in a technology column from a traditional/transitioning media company. It's not really a column though, it's the blog of their webdev/analysis team ("Data Desk"). Ben had previously posted about them releasing a hyphenation django app.

palewire 15y ago

Thanks for the compliment. We have a small team in the newsroom that does data analysis and web development. You can keep up with all our latest work by following @LATdatadesk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LATdatadesk https://twitter.com/#!/LATdatadesk Our evergreen projects are linked from our index page at: http://datadesk.latimes.com/ http://datadesk.latimes.com/ We have a number of open-source projects on GitHub. http://github.com/datadesk/ http://github.com/datadesk/ We also have an array of tools for the routine publishing of data-driven news: graphics.latimes.com, spreadsheets.latimes.com, documents.latimes.com and timelines.latimes.com. Finally, tonight we'll be mapping live election results from the Iowa Caucuses. Check latimes.com after 5:30 pm PST.