Interesting to see how data journalism has evolved into uploading CSVs into the cloud. I remember when the hottest thing at the I.R.E.† conventions was learnin

Interesting to see how data journalism has evolved into uploading CSVs into the cloud. I remember when the hottest thing at the I.R.E.† conventions was learning how to extract and decipher the data from 9-track tapes. In the early days of FOIA, governments would try to stymie your reporting by "complying" with data requests by dumping massive amounts of information on you in giant 9-track data reels. Almost no newsroom had the equipment or technical ability to read them, so we had to figure things out by ourselves, or find friendly businesses and institutions that would help us out. † https://www.ire.org/ https://www.ire.org/