aan writers conference/las vegas
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A presentation on computer-assisted reporting delivered for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Writers Conference in Las Vegas, NV. (2010_TRANSCRIPT
Adventure inComputer-Assisted Reporting
AANLas Vegas
October, 2010
Julia Goldberg
What do we mean by computer-assisted reporting?
Not this…
Not This Either
Computer-Assisted Reporting
Mining the internet for data,working with the informationand presenting it to readers
Where’s the money?
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-4860-wheres-the-money.html
Socratapublic informationdatabasesembeddable
visualizations
Spreadsheets
the real reason you became a journalist was probably not
because you love spreadsheets
Spread sheet magic!
Google gadgets
Maps
Map mashupsgoogle maps
interactive mapsmapsmapsmaps
Parks
Zeemaps
Geobatch
Docs docs docstimeline
Data scraping
the next frontier
using tools to pull information off the web