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Text Analysis in Transparency: video of a talk at @SunlightLabs. Apps and tools out there, and how they work http://t.co/5nMSYUIaiz #tcamp13 Delete the scoop?
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Toronto City Council is in the midst of a very lengthy process of considering whether or not to allow the OLG to build of a new casino in Toronto, and where. The process started in November of 201... Delete the scoop?
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Journalists' beginner guide to coding Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog) The romantic ideal of the hacker journalist finding the signal in the noise of the incredible amounts of data generated everyday has become one of the most... Delete the scoop?
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There’s no such thing as an objective filter: Why designing algorithms that tell us the news is hard
Technologists and humanists take different approaches — and speak different languages. Delete the scoop?
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BERLIN — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.
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I'm guessing there's a Godwin's Law joke in here somewhere ;-) Delete the scoop?
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Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia’s Emily Bell said Thursday. Delete the scoop?
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As our governments and businesses become increasingly flush with information, more and bigger data are becoming available from across the globe. Delete the scoop?
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There is an old saying along the lines of “give a man a fish and you can feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime”. Delete the scoop?
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Visual communications expert Alberto Cairo shares his slideshow presentation on the art of infographics. (I really love this: "So what?" and "what's your point? Delete the scoop?
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Google's preference for content marketing raises the question of whether the objectivity of algorithms can account for the subjectivity of quality Via Andy Bull 
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May 14, 12:16 PM
Google makes brand journalism essential for organisations. From the report: "SEO now requires a much more varied skill set, something more akin to high quality writing and PR." 
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May 14, 2:18 PM
People put so much effort into marketing content they could be writing quality content in the first place instead.
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May 14, 5:00 PM
That's become a cliché. The Internet has become a place where humans and robots are struggling, sometime in real time, to achieve a working relationship. There is no point in "writing quality content" if nobody will pay to read it, or, for that matter, if nobody will know it exists because the "content management system" has failed to make the robot aware it exists.
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In my last post I said that I would try to investigate the question of who actually does want a casino, and whether place of residence is a factor in where they want the casino to be built. So, he... Delete the scoop?
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Here's a look at how some of the more prominent political clans in the country fared in the May 13 midterm elections. Delete the scoop?
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In this video Luke Rudkowski sits down with fellow journalist and tech expert Tim Pool to find out if you can still protect your sources as a journalist. The... Delete the scoop?
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RT @rufuspollock: Most real world data analysis can be done on a single machine according to this paper http://t.co/hP6vbUd6nd #SmallData /via @edd Delete the scoop?
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Migrahack: Unraveling the Stories Behind Immigration Data | Institute for Justice & Journalism http://t.co/L0pgOk6arY #immigration Delete the scoop?
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Big Data, in the broadest sense, has become a rich site of research interest across the scholarly disciplines. I'm happy to share with the Culture Digitally community this call for papers for a spe... Delete the scoop?
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Covering the News in a Dangerous and Changing World By Frank Smyth/CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security With a chapter on Information Security by Danny O’Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator... Delete the scoop?
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Journalism.co.uk Open Gender Tracker analyses gender balance in the media Journalism.co.uk "When I first charted out two decades of major international newspapers I was very shocked to see how flat the line was of articles by women over time,"... Delete the scoop?
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Stories and Data: An Extraordinary Collaboration - http://t.co/p2kBwYKTvY Delete the scoop?
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The Declassification Engine was designed to peer through the "black bars" of redacted government documents in order to reveal what the feds don't want you to know. Delete the scoop?
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