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Coding for Journalists 101 : A four-part series Photo by Nico Cavallotto on Flickr Update, January 2012: Everything…yes, everything, is superseded by my free online book, The Bastards Book of Ruby, which is a much more complete walkthrough of basic programming principles with far more practical and up-to-date examples and projects than what you’ll find here. I’m only keeping this old walkthrough up as a historical reference. I’m sure the code is so ugly that I’m not going to even try re-reading it. 10 tools that can help data journalists do better work, be more efficient It’s hard to be equally good at all of the tasks that fall under data journalism. To make matters worse (or better, really), data journalists are discovering and applying new methods and tools all the time. As a beginning data journalist, you’ll want to develop a sense of the tools others are using to do the work you admire. You won’t be able to learn them all at once, and you shouldn’t try. You should, however, develop a sort of ambient awareness of the tools in use (something like the knowledge Facebook gives you about the lives of your high-school classmates).
75-tools-for-visualizing-your-data Rating: 0.0/ (0 votes cast) TRIPWIRE MAGAZINE – By LARS Most people would agree that the old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is also true for web based solutions. There should be no discussion – Charts and Graphs are ideal to visualize data in order to quickly deliver an overview and communicate key messages. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer or suits you data (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), there are many different options but how do you get started and what is technologically possible? Network Graph - Fusion Tables Help Current limitations include: The visualization will only show relationships from the first 100,000 rows in a table. A filter can include rows from 100,001 or beyond in the table, but the graph will still not display them. Internet Explorer 8 and below are not supported. When using Fusion Tables with an unsupported browser, the Network Graph visualization will not be available.
The Best Data Mining Tools You Can Use for Free in Your Company Data mining or “Knowledge Discovery in Databases” is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets with artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and database systems. The overall goal of a data mining process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use. Here is a simple but fascinating example of how data mining helped dissipate wrong assumptions and conclusions about girls, and take action with tremendous social impact. For long time, the high rate of dropout of girls in schools in developing countries were explained with sociological and cultural hypothesis: girls are not encouraged by indigenous societies, parents treat girls differently, girls are pushed to get married earlier or loaded with much more work than boys.
Data journalism: 22 key links « Simon Rogers Simon Rogers Data journalism and other curiosities Search Subscribe to RSS you're reading... Jeff's Search Engine Caffè: Java Open Source NLP and Text Mining tools See my related post on Open-Source Search Engine Libraries. Here are some of the open source NLP and machine learning tools for text mining, information extraction, text classification, clustering, approximate string matching, language parsing and tagging, and more. I've tried to roughly group the tools. However, the categories are quite loose and many of the tools fit into multiple categories. Machine learning and data miningWeka - is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining. It is one of the most popular text classification frameworks.
Visual.ly Content alone does not make a great video; you need a great video design that make a visual statement combining design and data visualization to deliver a story. Designers often get a little excited and put too much fancy design to fill in the space. The best content marketing brands are the ones that know how use content to drive conversions and pushing the boundaries. Keep in mind, quality = attention span. How to make a map with Google Fusion tables « Simon Rogers The workshop below was written by Kathryn Hurley at Google and is a brilliant guide to how to get started with Fusion tables. Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application making it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Follow the steps below to upload your own data to Fusion Tables and create a map! Topics covered:
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