AAN Writers Conference/Las Vegas

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

http://www.socrata.com/





Spreadsheets

the real reason you became a journalist was probably not

because you love spreadsheets

Spread sheet magic!

http://cleanupdata.com/

Google gadgets

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuE2k1mo67cmdHQyVHRkaWRtd2hKc19UblpTY2kwRlE&hl=en%23gid=0

Maps

Map mashupsgoogle maps

interactive mapsmapsmapsmaps

Parks

Zeemaps

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5655-state-of-play.html

http://www.zeemaps.com/

Geobatch

http://www.batchgeo.com/

Docs docs docstimeline

http://www.documentcloud.org/

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5661-pop-quiz-2010-legislative-house-districts-47-48.html

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/blog-2406-the-numbersbehind-the-numbers.html

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/blog-2405-timeline-behind-the-numbers.html

Data scraping

the next frontier

using tools to pull information off the web

http://www.sos.state.nm.us/

Visualize This

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

http://vizlab.nytimes.com/

Money bubbles

for all

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/3d83d2bce06b11df894b000255111976/comments/3d93960ce06b11df894b000255111976

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/flex-199-elections.html

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