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Showing posts with label data journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data journalism. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2014

A call for journalists and makers to join hands around IOT and evidence-based journalism

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Writing for Al Jazeera English, D. Parvaz reported on a recent conference for atomic experts organized by the International Atomic Energy...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Satellite images show devastating effects of a big tornado on a small Illinois town

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The Nov. 17, 2013 tornado outbreak ended the lives of three people in the town of Washington, Ill., and upended the lives of many in...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Building and flying an incredibly tiny quadrotor drone

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At the National Science Foundation grant where I work, EnLiST, we've been tinkering with various different drone platforms which cou...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Drones, journalism, and the peak of inflated expectations

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It's a story that's been repeated time and time again with emergent technology. Researchers publish some new breakthrough, and th...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Heat island effect and asthma: an argument for temperature nodes for journalists

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Meteorologists shouldn’t be the only people in the news ecosystem concerned with temperature. Extreme temperatures can exacerbate food sho...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Time-lapse photography with drone parts

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Let’s say you’re a journalist and you want to record an important event taking place over an extended period, say 12 to 72 hours. Or even...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Journalism Drone Development: aerial photo mosiacs, and what's the spatial resolution on this drone, anyway?

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Above is an aerial mosaic -- a series of 11 photos taken from a small unmanned aerial vehicle (colloquially known as a drone) that have b...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Drone stalkers, privacy, ethics and the future: A Drone Journalism Q&A

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One of the MAV (Micro Aerial Vehicle) test platform that DroneJournalism.org developers are working with. Recently, a journalism stude...
Monday, December 19, 2011

A breakthrough in data visualization, what it means for data journalism, predicting the news

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Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced a new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific paper...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Founding a Professional Society of Drone Journalists

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It’s been quite a month for drones. After Iranian armed forces captured one of the coveted American RQ170 stealth drones, the very same...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Being a More Versatile Journalist: Data Journalism Veteran Steve Doig Wants Journalists to Know Statistics

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Aerial photograph of the devastation from hurricane Andrew in 1992. Steve Doig, who was a reporter for the Miami Herald at the time, used ...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

South-side children have greatest exposure to lead in Chicago, health department data shows

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This interactive heat map, compiled using Chicago Department of Public Health data, GIS files, and Google Fusion, shows where Children wi...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Visualization - Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood struggles with pollution

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The Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago faces unique challenges in terms of environment and health. It retains some of its manufacturing base fr...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Google scholarship signals growth in data journalism field

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Google announced Monday that it would give $20,000 to journalism students who can mash-up computer science and enterprise reporting. The...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

A Radical New Mission for Drones: Helping Journalists find Truth

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Drones are mostly associated with the ongoing war in Afghanistan and Pakistan – where they continue to shoot missiles and drop bombs on ...