Putting the data science into journalism

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 23 Apr 2015 English Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Journal:Communications of the ACM, volume 58, pages 15-17 (issn: 0001-0782, eissn: 1557-7317,

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Authors: Keith Kirkpatrick;

doi: 10.1145/2742484

Putting the data science into journalism

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News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify and present manually.

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