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Sharon Machlis - Google+ - Interesting read on how the Chicago Tribune created their…

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Interesting read on how the Chicago Tribune created their crime site, including how they handled a number of data integrity and analysis challenges
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Knowledge Discovery for Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement: David Skillicorn: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Knowledge Discovery for Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement: David Skillicorn: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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Timely introduction to the "science" of mass surveillance
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Learning about… algorithms and machine learning with ONADC

Algorithms. It’s a fancy word for something I do every day, and you should, too — Getting the computer to do your bidding.
Okay, it can get a little more complex than that. But not much.
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Using Data from Citizens to Measure Radiation Levels and Air Quality | News & Analysis | Data Driven Journalism

Using Data from Citizens to Measure Radiation Levels and Air Quality | News & Analysis | Data Driven Journalism | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
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Top 10 Front-End Development Frameworks

Top 10 Front-End Development Frameworks | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
As the Web matures and the range of mobile devices we use to access it rapidly grows, our jobs as web designers and developers get considerably more complicated.
A decade ago things were much simpler.
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English-Language Twitter Feed of Posts Censored from Sina Weibo Created by JMSC Scholars

English-Language Twitter Feed of Posts Censored from Sina Weibo Created by JMSC Scholars | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
WeiboTrendsPro, a Twitter feed that tweets English translations of posts that have been deleted from the Chinese social networking website Sina Weibo, has been created by three JMSC graduate students.
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Against the myth of the heroic visualization - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Against the myth of the heroic visualization - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
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Getting Started with Firefox OS

Getting Started with Firefox OS | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Getting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged AppsMobile applications are all the rage these days.
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There's a map for that · GitHub

There's a map for that · GitHub | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Build software better, together.
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Storm-YARN Released as Open Source

Storm-YARN Released as Open Source | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
By Bobby Evans and Andy Feng (@afeng76) At Yahoo! we have worked on the convergence of Storm with Hadoop, as mentioned in our earlier post. We are pleased to announce that Storm-YARN has been released as open source.

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Journos create data journalism experiment Detention Logs - MuMbrella

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Journos create data journalism experiment Detention Logs MuMbrella Three young freelance journalists, who invested hundreds of hours in decoding and reformatting thousands of Department of Immigration records, are behind one of the largest data...
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VoC Classification

A brief overview of how de-duplication, clustering, human coding, and custom machine classification can create a reusable analytic pathway through tens of thousands…

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Allergy season off to an early, nasty start

Allergy season off to an early, nasty start | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
As the rainy Oregon winter gives way to high temperatures and dry conditions, many Oregonians reluctantly enter allergy and sneeze season.
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Using Crowdring for Disaster Response?

Using Crowdring for Disaster Response? | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
35 million missed calls.
That’s the number of calls that 75-year old social justice leader Anna Hazare received from people across India who supported his efforts to fight corruption.
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Dude, srsly?: The Surprisingly Formal Nature of Twitter’s Language

Dude, srsly?: The Surprisingly Formal Nature of Twitter’s Language | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Twitter has always been associated with brevity and immediacy, and there is little wonder that the combination of these two has led to a preconceived notion that linguistic style on Twitter is closer to the “lingo” used on informal mediums … Continue...
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Is social media diversifying public agendas?

Is social media diversifying public agendas? | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Agenda-setting (telling people ‘what to think about‘, in McCombs’ and Shaw’s terms) is a key role played by the mainstream media.
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Parsing XML to JSON in Python | ClearBlade

Parsing XML to JSON in Python | ClearBlade | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
When traversing the internet you'll find a lot of useful webservices that output XML. I have nothing against XML, but I find it much easier to work with data programmatically if it is in JSON. There didn't seem to be much out there ...

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How We Built the Offshore Leaks Database

How La Nación Costa Rica developed ICIJ’s application to visualize offshore companies.
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A Multi-Indicator Approach for Geolocalization of Tweets

A Multi-Indicator Approach for Geolocalization of Tweets | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Real-time information from microblogs like Twitter is useful for different applications such as market research, opinion mining, and crisis management. For many of those messages, location information is required to derive useful insights.
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Getting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged Apps

Getting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged Apps | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Getting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged AppsMozilla’s Firefox OS runs Web apps instead of native apps.
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Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub · GitHub Help

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Visual Literacy in an Age of Data - Learning - Source: An OpenNews project

Visual Literacy in an Age of Data - Learning - Source: An OpenNews project | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Source - Journalism Code, Context & Community
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How are Wikipedia’s breaking news collaborations different?

When breaking news events like natural disasters happen, where do you go for information? Once upon a time, professional journalists were responsible for gathering information and sharing it with an audience.
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Hadoop Tutorial: Intro to HDFS

In this presentation, Sameer Farooqui is going to introduce the Hadoop Distributed File System, an Apache open source distributed file system designed to run...

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How To Gradually Grow a Good List of Reliable News Sources on Twitter

How To Gradually Grow a Good List of Reliable News Sources on Twitter | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by c...

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LuAnne Holder's comment, June 14, 5:33 PM
Howard, I love your idea about using Twitter and Diigo together. Thanks for sharing.
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Requires a bit more effort and dedication that using something like Google Alerts, but I think if you're prepared to continually refine who you're following, you're likely to hone in on content that has greater relevance.

Josie's curator insight, June 16, 10:34 AM

Thank You Haans. A well done list!

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New Maps and a New Plan for New York

New Maps and a New Plan for New York | Frontiers of Journalism | Scoop.it
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