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Data Analysis / Data Science for Journalism

Journalism Projects : Data Science for Journalism

A big collection. Maybe we should pull some of the best up to this page…

News Games

A Brief Introduction to Newsgames

by Victoria Cabales (Journalism/CS ‘19)

• Poynter: The LA Times made a simple game to help readers understand a complicated issue (Direct link to The Ocean Game (paywalled) )
• MIT Technology Review: Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game
• Financial Times: Can you negotiate your way out of a ransomware attack?
• New York Times: You Be the Ump
• Bloomberg: American Mall
• Washington Post: Play mini golf to seehow politicians tilt elections using maps
• Headlines and High Water: journalism education game from Univ. of Wisconsin
• Algorithm Watch: Can you break the algorithm?

Books

Joe has a bunch of books in his office with cool maps, charts, or stories about interesting projects. These don’t circulate, but you can look at them during Open Lab or any other time you and he are both around Knight Lab.

Books for Inspiration