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Data-Journalism Section or Website: Thomson Reuters for "Connected China" Reuters Connected Chaina uses not only a formidable amount of statistics but also s... Via luiy 
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When we first published Mining the Social Web, I thought it was one of the most important books I worked on that year. Now that we're publishing a second edition... Via luiy
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October 28, 2013 5:43 AM
... With this new edition, Mining the Social Web is more important than ever.
While we’re seeing more and more cynicism about the value of data, and particularly “big data,” that cynicism isn’t shared by most people who actually work with data. Data has undoubtedly been overhyped and oversold, but the best way to arm yourself against the hype machine is to start working with data yourself, to find out what you can and can’t learn. And there’s no shortage of data around.
Everything we do leaves a cloud of data behind it: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ — to say nothing of the thousands of other social sites out there, such as Pinterest, Yelp, Foursquare, you name it. Google is doing a great job of mining your data for value. Why shouldn’t you? There are few better ways to learn about mining social data than by starting with Twitter; Twitter is really a ready-made laboratory for the new data scientist. And this book is without a doubt the best and most thorough approach to mining Twitter data out there. But that’s only a starting point. We hear a lot in the press about sentiment analysis and mining unstructured text data; this book shows you how to do it. If you need to mine the data in web pages or email archives, this book shows you how. And if you want to understand how to people collaborate on projects,Mining the Social Web is the only place I’ve seen that analyzes GitHub data. |
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November 17, 2013 9:01 AM
The Data Journalism Awards (DJA) is the prime international competition recognizing outstanding work in the field of data journalism. Sponsored by Google, the DJA 2013 received over 300 applications from all over the world, ranging from major media groups, regional newspapers, and research groups, and the winners were just announced at the award ceremony held at the Global Editors Network News Summit. - See more at: http://visualoop.com/9472/data-journalism-awards-winners#sthash.CAvWCmIA.dpuf |
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