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Superstorm Sandy - Long Island And Staten Island Coasts

Woof. Really great visual survey of #sandy coastal damage. Favorite bit is linked imagery on hover: http://t.co/Mm1dnnf77w
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Datawrapper breaks down barriers in visualising and publishing data

Datawrapper breaks down barriers in visualising and publishing data | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
DataDrivenJournalism.net is dedicated to providing anyone interested in getting started with data driven journalism with a collection of learning resources, including relevant events, tools, tutorials, interviews and case studies.
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Reporters' Lab

Reporters' Lab | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
A home for techniques, tools and research to support and reduce the cost of public affairs journalism at Duke University's DeWitt Center for Media and Democracy.
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Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - mediabistro.com

Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - mediabistro.com | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writersmediabistro.comBy Jason Boog on February 17, 2012 4:42 PM Here's more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes' website: “Narrative Science has developed a technology...
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Twitris Social Media Analysis Tackles Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Elections - semanticweb.com

Twitris Social Media Analysis Tackles Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Elections - semanticweb.com | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Twitris Social Media Analysis Tackles Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Elections (RT @amit_p: Twitris 360 degree Social Media Analysis tackles #ows: http://t.co/K1RazPJS #socialmedia #semanticweb...
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Welcome to freedDive | Knight Digital Media Center

Int'g step twd open-source data: MT @KDMCinfo: KDMC at UC Berkeley announces freeDive, a tool to make embeddable DBs http://t.co/kInxOLy5...
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Social-Network Modeling Made Easier

Social-Network Modeling Made Easier | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
A team of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers has developed a modeling and simulation package that allows users to create their own social-network models instead of having to call in professional modelers.
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Data mining tools for journalism | ScienceWriters (www.nasw.org)

Data mining tools for journalism | ScienceWriters (www.nasw.org) | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Data mining tools for journalism | ScienceWriterswwwnasworg http://t.co/81vMPKxh...
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"This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in..."

"This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in..." | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
“This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard...
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At any given time I have several Crazy Awesome ideas.  One...

At any given time I have several Crazy Awesome ideas.  One I’m thinking about:  
Why not take my 10 year old out of school for a year, and do a curriculum entirely based on high-seas piracy?  Because, really, what can’t you learn from pirates?
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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica

Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
A series of programming and technical guides on how we collected data for Dollars for Docs.
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Data engineers replace old-fashioned hacks

Data engineers replace old-fashioned hacks | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Data engineers replace old-fashioned hacks : joel-garner:
Today saw the launch of the first ever International Data Journalism Awards by the Global Editors Network.
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Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications http://t.co/cy5Jwu5f
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Create a Twitter RSS feed for Tweets, Searches, Hashtags, Lists or Favorites

Create a Twitter RSS feed for Tweets, Searches, Hashtags, Lists or Favorites | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Warning! RSS from Twitter is unreliable. Do NOT assume you will see all tweets.
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Cool Analytics: Using Word Analysis to Forecast World Events

Cool Analytics: Using Word Analysis to Forecast World Events | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Above is an animated gif. If you click on the image, it runs an animation depicting a spatial analysis of key words in the Summary of World Broadcasts between 1979 and 2010.

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Smart Content Re-viewed: Text Analytics and Semantic Content ...

Smart Content Re-viewed: Text Analytics and Semantic Content ... | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
As Marie Wallace of IBMremarked, it's great to see the term semantic content enrichment generating discussion although she continued, “I suspect that most people still don't differentiate it from just text analytics.” There is a ...
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta 1 Launch Details) | PBS

MediaShift Idea Lab . Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta 1 Launch Details) | PBS | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
SQL made Snuggly: Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data!
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Smart Content Reviewed: Text Analytics & Semantic Content Enrichment

Spurred on by an online debate about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment, I turn in this article to the pressing question: "What does semantic content enrichment mean?

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Smart Content Reviewed: Text Analytics & Semantic Content Enrichment

Spurred on by an online debate about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment, I turn in this article to the pressing question: "What does semantic content enrichment mean?
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A Quick View Over a MASHe Google Spreadsheet Twitter Archive of UKGC12 Tweets

A Quick View Over a MASHe Google Spreadsheet Twitter Archive of UKGC12 Tweets | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Following on from A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi, here’s a quick view summary view over #UKGC12 tweets saved in Google Spreadsheet archive as developed by Martin Hawksey, generated from an R script (R code...
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OMG you guys — ASCIImeo takes any web video and turns it...

OMG you guys — ASCIImeo takes any web video and turns it... | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
OMG you guys — ASCIImeo takes any web video and turns it into animated ASCII art! 
*faints and dies* 
At first I thought it was broken because it doesn’t play instantly.  I assume it is buffering the video and transcoding it into ASCII.
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Newspapers should have regularly-updated lists of agreed-on facts

Newspapers should have regularly-updated lists of agreed-on facts | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
Newspapers should have regularly-updated lists of agreed-on facts: brigidfitzgeraldreading: There’s fairly broad agreement that quoting public figures saying something wrong about Subject X in a news story, and then correcting the record on Subject...
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"I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means..."

"I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means..." | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
“I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches.
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20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques - DesignModo

20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques - DesignModo | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques - DesignModo: pragmaticpeck:
Had some discussion about CSS 3 and all the seemingly amazing things that people are able to do with it.  Worth the look.
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One thing you need in order to produce web apps independently is...

One thing you need in order to produce web apps independently is... | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it
One thing you need in order to produce web apps independently is some appreciation for the basics of front-end design.  This is a great roundup — check it out.
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slides from my R tutorial on Twitter text mining #rstats

Update: An expanded version of this tutorial will appear in the new Elsevier book Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications by Gary Miner et. al which...
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