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Good that Google is offering courses for people with no knowledge of stats, journalist should be prepared to handle all the open data that is being released. Re
by lalos 13y ago
Good that Google is offering courses for people with no knowledge of stats, journalist should be prepared to handle all the open data that is being released. Reminds me of the case of Irene Choge a journalist who attended a Google sponsored Bootcamp and later discovered flaws in certain schools in Kenya. source: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/open-data-has-little-value-if/ http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/open-data-has-little-value-if/
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- datawander 13y agoThere already are a pair of data-driven journalists at the WSJ whose day-to-day sounds more like a data scientist than a typical journalist. They are Tom McGinty and Rob Barry. They gave a great talk recently, which I wrote about (shameless plug below), summarizing how they investigated the Asiana airline crash in SF recently and what their day looks like. They're brilliant: http://datawonder.co/blog/2014/01/15/data-skeptics-wsj-meetup/ http://datawonder.co/blog/2014/01/15/data-skeptics-wsj-meetu...