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A learn-‐to-‐program blog written with journalists in mind
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Keep Calm & Don’t Panic
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Get Excited & Make Things
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Data Journalism
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Sports
Scandal Crime
Economic Crisis
Climate Change
Foreclosure Crisis
War
Horse-race politics
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Time
Sou
rces
Sports
Scandal Crime
Economic Crisis
Climate Change
Foreclosure Crisis
War
Horse-race politics
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Time
Sou
rces
Sports
Scandal Crime
Economic Crisis
Climate Change
Foreclosure Crisis
War
Horse-race politics
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Top ten data viz for journalism projects
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http://bit.ly/newsdataviz
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New Haven Register Tool: Dipity Difficulty: Beginner
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NYT oil spill
NYT Oil Spill Tracker Tool: Flash and TileMill(?) Difficulty: Expert
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Grassroots Mapping Tool: Cartagen Knitting
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Cartagen oil spill
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Iraq War Logs
Associated Press Iraq War Logs Tool: Gephy Expert
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Seattle Times Foreclosures
Seattle Times Foreclosure Crisis Tool: Tableau Public Intermediate
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Top Secret America
Washington Post Flash, etc. Expert
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Nonprofit News Organizations
Nonprofit News Tool: Many Eyes Beginner
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Recovery Tracker
WNYC Snow Map Tool: Fusion Tables Intermediate
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Population Data
Baseball Salaries Tool: BuzzData Intermediate
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Oil spills, public corruption, war, foreclosures,
snowstorms, government spending, the future of news national security and the fate
of the Red Sox
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Why bother?
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Our problems are distributed and global
Our media is consolidated and
local
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Penguins
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Veterans battlefield injuries
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Turn stories into signals
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Apple’s stock price
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Extra slides I might or might not use
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When we began looking in 2007 1 in 8 Americans lived in a city or town with a placeblog
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Now that number is 1 in 2
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How to tell the good startup/project ideas
from the bad ones
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Don’t do anything for free that you wouldn’t do for free indefinitely.
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WHAT CAN I DO WITHOUT ANYONE’S
ASSISTANCE OR PERMISSION?
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Everything about something!
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Relationships first
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“Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.”
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Thanks! Lisa on LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/lisawilliams Lisa on Twitter: @lisawilliams