Data for Journalists
eBook - ePub

Data for Journalists

A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting

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eBook - ePub

Data for Journalists

A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting

About this book

Now in its sixth edition, Data for Journalists is a straightforward and effective guide to using data for news stories.

This concise textbook addresses all the key basic skills that data journalists need, including how to find and scrape data, how to build a database, how to visualize data, and how to use spreadsheets and database managers – before launching into coding and more advanced analysis. Alongside step-by-step instructions on beginning data analysis, Houston discusses why these digital tools should be an integral part of reporting in the present day. Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth edition features a new chapter on data visualization as well as new material on using free software such as Google Sheets and Datawrapper.

Emphasizing that journalists are accountable for the accuracy and relevance of the data they acquire and share, particularly if artificial intelligence is involved, this is an ideal core text for courses on data-driven journalism and computer-assisted reporting.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
eBook ISBN
9781040704073
Subtopic
Data Mining
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Features
  8. New to This Edition
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1. What Data Journalism and Computer-Assisted Reporting Is and Why Journalists Use It
  11. 2. Online Resources: Researching and Finding Data on the Internet
  12. 3. Getting Data Not on the Web: How to Find and Negotiate for Data
  13. 4. Building Your Own Database: How to Develop Exclusive Sources
  14. 5. Spreadsheets, Part 1: Basic Math and Data Analysis for Journalists
  15. 6. Spreadsheets, Part 2: More Math That Matters
  16. 7. The Database Manager, Part 1: Searching and Summarizing
  17. 8. Database Managers, Part 2: Matchmaking and Advanced Queries
  18. 9. Basic Data Visualization: Charts, Maps, and Social Network Analysis
  19. 10. Dirty Data: How to Fact Check Your Data and Clean It
  20. 11. How to Report and Write with Data
  21. Appendix A: Unstructured Data: Analyzing Text and Social Media
  22. Appendix B: Coding and Artificial Intelligence
  23. Selected Bibliography
  24. Glossary
  25. Index

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