“The key attributes journalists must have—separate fact from opinion, find and develop sources, and curiosity to ask probing, intelligent questions—are still relevant today’s 140-character-or-less, ADHD-esque society. Yet increasingly, journalists dealing with technical topics often found in science or technology are turning to tools that were once solely the province of data analysts and computer scientists.
Data mining, Web scraping, classifying unstructured data types, and creating complex data visualizations uncover data that would be impossible to compile manually.
“It is about giving the audience information that is unique, in-depth, that allows them to explore the data, and also engage with the audience,” says David Herzog, a professor at the University of Missouri…” read story