ENTRIES TAGGED "data analysis"
Profile of the Data Journalist: The Homicide Watch
Chris Amico and Laura Norton Amico's project started as a spreadsheet. Now it's a community news platform.
To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. "It’s not just about the data, and it’s not just about the journalism, but it’s about meeting a community need in an innovative way," said Laura Norton Amico.
Unstructured data is worth the effort when you’ve got the right tools
Alyona Medelyan and Anna Divoli on the opportunities in chaotic data.
Alyona Medelyan and Anna Divoli are inventing tools to help companies contend with vast quantities of fuzzy data. They discuss their work and what lies ahead for big data in this interview.
Strata Week: Why ThinkUp matters
ThinkUp and data ownership, DataSift turns on its Twitter firehose, and Google cracks opens the door to BigQuery.
Data democratization gets an important new tool with the release of ThinkUp 1.0. Also, DataSift offers another way to get the Twitter firehose, and Google offers a little more access to its BigQuery data analytics service.
Social network analysis isn’t just for social networks
Social network analysis (SNA) finds meaningful patterns in relationship data.
The scientific methodology of social network analysis (SNA) helps explain not just how people connect, but why they come together as well. Here, "Social Network Analysis for Startups" co-author Maksim Tsvetovat offers a primer on SNA.
Global Adaptation Index enables better data-driven decisions
The Global Adaptation Index combines development indicators from 161 countries.
Speed, accessibility and open data have come together in the Global Adaptation Index, a new data browser that rates a given country's vulnerability to environmental shifts.
Look at Cook sets a high bar for open government data visualizations
Open source tools and a focus on user experience elevate Cook County's "Look at Cook" data website.
One of the best recent efforts at visualizing open government data can be found at LookatCook.com, which tracks government budgets and expenditures from 1993-2011 in Cook County, Illinois.
Open source maps tell data journalism stories in Afghanistan
Open data, a map and the Internet share the story of violence against journalists in Afghanistan
A new website shows incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan launched. Data.nai.org.afs charts attacks on the media onto an interactive map of country using open source mapping tools.
Real-time data needs to power the business side, not just tech
Theo Schlossnagle on the state of real-time data analysis and where it needs to go.
Real-time data analysis has come a long way, but Theo Schlossnagle, principal and CEO of OmniTI, says some technology improvements are actually causing a data analysis devolution.
Dashboards evolve to meet social and business needs
Well-designed dashboards begin with the user squarely in mind.
A new class of dashboards is making data analysis more flexible. Some companies are even replacing stagnant corporate intranets with dashboard interfaces.
Data integration services combine storage and analysis tools
Companies are looking to help business clients store and analyze data.
IBM Netezza and Revolution R Enterprise announced a new partnership, which together with recent moves by Microsoft and HP signal a growing realization that integrating data storage and analysis provides a better client experience.
