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Timeline JS - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. - 0 views

  • Document History TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for: Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON. Tips and tricks to best utilize TimelineJS. Keep it short, and write each event as a part of a larger narrative. Pick stories that have a strong chronological narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the timeline. Include events that build up to major occurrences. Not just the major events. Sign up for Updates Get updates, tips and news by email. No Spam. Subscribe var fnames = new Array();var ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='NAME';ftypes[1]='text'; try { var jqueryLoaded=jQuery; jqueryLoaded=true; } catch(err) { var jqueryLoaded=false; } var head= document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; if (!jqueryLoaded) { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js'; head.appendChild(script); if (script.readyState && script.onload!==null){ script.onreadystatechange= function () { if (this.readyState == 'complete') mce_preload_check(); } } } var script = document.createElement('script'); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src = 'http://downloads.mailchimp.com/js/jquery.form-n-validate.js'; head.appendChild(script); var err_style = ''; try{ err_style = mc_custom_error_style; } catch(e){ err_style = '#mc_embed_signup input.mce_inline_error{border-color:#6B0505;} #mc_embed_signup div.mce_inline_error{margin: 0 0 1em 0; padding: 5px 10px; background-color:#6B0505; font-weight: bold; z-index: 1; color:#fff;}'; } var head= document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; var style= document.createElement('style'); style.type= 'text/css'; if (style.styleSheet) { style.styleSheet.cssText = err_style; } else { style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(err_style)); } head.appendChild(style); setTimeout('mce_preload_check();', 250); var mce_preload_checks = 0; function mce_preload_check(){ if (mce_preload_checks>40) return; mce_preload_checks++; try { var jqueryLoaded=jQuery; } catch(err) { setTimeout('mce_preload_check();', 250); return; } try { var validatorLoaded=jQuery("#fake-form").validate({}); } catch(err) { setTimeout('mce_preload_check();', 250); return; } mce_init_form(); } function mce_init_form(){ jQuery(document).ready( function($) { var options = { errorClass: 'mce_inline_error', errorElement: 'div', onkeyup: function(){}, onfocusout:function(){}, onblur:function(){} }; var mce_validator = $("#mc-embedded-subscribe-form").validate(options); $("#mc-embedded-subscribe-form").unbind('submit');//remove the validator so we can get into beforeSubmit on the ajaxform, which then calls the validator options = { url: 'http://verite.us4.list-manage2.com/subscribe/post-json?u=7cc197123f5f6d3b8dc4e176f&id=d7f2b5d664&c=?', type: 'GET', dataType: 'json', contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", beforeSubmit: function(){ $('#mce_tmp_error_msg').remove(); $('.datefield','#mc_embed_signup').each( function(){ var txt = 'filled'; var fields = new Array(); var i = 0; $(':text', this).each( function(){ fields[i] = this; i++; }); $(':hidden', this).each( function(){ var bday = false; if (fields.length == 2){ bday = true; fields[2] = {'value':1970};//trick birthdays into having years } if ( fields[0].value=='MM' && fields[1].value=='DD' && (fields[2].value=='YYYY' || (bday && fields[2].value==1970) ) ){ this.value = ''; } else if ( fields[0].value=='' && fields[1].value=='' && (fields[2].value=='' || (bday && fields[2].value==1970) ) ){ this.value = ''; } else { if (/\[day\]/.test(fields[0].name)){ this.value = fields[1].value+'/'+fields[0].value+'/'+fields[2].value; } else { this.value = fields[0].value+'/'+fields[1].value+'/'+fields[2].value; } } }); }); return mce_validator.form(); }, success: mce_success_cb }; $('#mc-embedded-subscribe-form').ajaxForm(options); }); } function mce_success_cb(resp){ $('#mce-success-response').hide(); $('#mce-error-response').hide(); if (resp.result=="success"){ $('#mce-'+resp.result+'-response').show(); $('#mce-'+resp.result+'-response').html(resp.msg); $('#mc-embedded-subscribe-form').each(function(){ this.reset(); }); } else { var index = -1; var msg; try { var parts = resp.msg.split(' - ',2); if (parts[1]==undefined){ msg = resp.msg; } else { i = parseInt(parts[0]); if (i.toString() == parts[0]){ index = parts[0]; msg = parts[1]; } else { index = -1; msg = resp.msg; } } } catch(e){ index = -1; msg = resp.msg; } try{ if (index== -1){ $('#mce-'+resp.result+'-response').show(); $('#mce-'+resp.result+'-response').html(msg); } else { err_id = 'mce_tmp_error_msg'; html = ' '+msg+''; var input_id = '#mc_embed_signup'; var f = $(input_id); if (ftypes[index]=='address'){
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    Document History TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for: Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON. Tips and tricks to best utilize TimelineJS. Keep it short, and write each event as a part of a larger narrative. Pick stories that have a strong chronological narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the timeline. Include events that build up to major occurrences. Not just the major events. Sign up for Updates Get updates, tips and news by email. No Spam. Download Coming Soon Changelog Issues The project is hosted on GitHub, the largest code host in the world. We encourage you to contribute to the project and we value your feedback. You can report bugs and discuss features on the issues page, or ask a question on our Google Group TimelineJS Download View on GitHub Google Group Wordpress Plugin Download View on GitHub This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA. TimelineJS was created and built by VéritéCo, as a project of the Knight News Innovation Lab Stay connected with us on twitter Examples
Tom Johnson

Playground | Social Analytics For Marketers - 0 views

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    What is it? A social analytics platform which contains over 1,000 days of tweets (all 70 billion of them), Facebook activity and blog posts. How is it of use to journalists? "Journalists can easily develop real-time insights into any story from Playground," PeopleBrowsr UK CEO Andrew Grill explains. Complex keyword searches can be divided by user influence, geolocation, sentiment, and virtual communities of people with shared interests and affinities. These features - and many more - let reporters and researchers easily drill down to find the people and content driving the conversation on social networks on any subject. Playground lets you use the data the way you want to use it. You can either export the graphs and tables that the site produces automatically or export the results in a CSV file to create your own visualisations, which could potentially make it the next favourite tool of data journalists. Grill added: The recent launch of our fully transparent Kred influencer platform will make it faster and easier for journalists to find key influencers in a particular community. You can give Playground a try for the first 14 days before signing up for one of their subscriptions ($19 a month for students and journalists, $149 for organisations and companies).
Tom Johnson

cohuman collaboration tool - 0 views

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    Who uses Cohuman? Teams Leads Members Teams Cohuman is ideal for any group of people that needs to communicate more dynamically and effectively than email or traditional collaboration tools will allow. Startups, Distributed Teams, Small Businesses, Deal Teams, Departments in larger organizations... in short Cohuman is for any group that requires a solution designed to coordinate people and manage projects more intelligently. Clear Task Ownership Assigning and tracking tasks is unambigious. Each team member has their personal responsibilities defined. Transparent Communication Everyone on the team knows exactly who is doing what - without extra effort. Intelligent Prioritization Every Task is ranked by Cohuman from the team's inputs in order of priority for people and projects so the important Tasks get done first. Dynamic Updates If a Task priority changes, the information is shared automatically with each team member - no Status update meetings or emails required. Powerful Email Integration Cohuman works for everyone on your team. Even those without a Cohuman account can interact with Cohuman via their email.
Tom Johnson

Investigative Reporters and Editors | Listserv archives - 0 views

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    Listserv archives IRE and NICAR offer several opportunities for members and even non-members to exchange ideas, information, techniques and war stories. Joining is easy. If you are an IRE member, you may view the list archives: * Click an archive link and login with any e-mail address on record with the IRE office. Click "Get Password" if your first visit, to receive your LISTSERV password (separate from the IRE website password). Most users will login with the e-mail used for their IRE login account. Please e-mail listmaster@ire.org if you need help or have any questions. IRE-L archives. NICAR-L archives. IREPLUS-L archives. CENSUS-L archives. The following lists are less active: CFIC-L archives IRE-EDU-L archives IREBC-L archives
Tom Johnson

Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source | Government In The Lab - 0 views

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    Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source Logo Open Source Initiative Image via Wikipedia Civic Commons, Contributors (Karl Fogel, Author) With more and more civic data becoming available and accessible, the challenge grows for policy makers and citizens to leverage that data for better decision-making. It is often difficult to understand context and perform analysis. "Weave", however, helps. A web-based data visualization tool, Weave enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time. We saw tremendous potential in the platform and have been helping open-source the software, advising on community engagement strategy and licensing. This week, we were excited to see the soft launch of the Weave 1.0 Beta, which went open-source on Wednesday, June 15. Weave is the result of a broad partnership: it was developed by the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachussetts Lowell, with support from the Open Indicators Consortium, which is made up of over ten municipal, regional, and state member organizations. This consortium will probably expand now that Weave is open source, leading hopefully to greater collaboration, more development, and further innovation on this important platform. Early-adopter data geeks should give it a spin. One of Weave's key features is high-speed interactivity and responsiveness, which is somewhat unusual in web-based visualization software; try out the demo sites or watch the video below. Our congratulations and thanks to the Weave team! As city management is increasingly data-driven, so data analysis and visualization tools will continue to be an important part of every city manager's toolkit. We are excited to see this evolving toolkit enter the civic commons. http://govinthelab.com/data-visualization-platform-weave-now-open-source
Tom Johnson

An Applied Demography Toolbox - 1 views

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    An Applied Demography Toolbox A collection of applied demography programs, scripts, spreadsheets and databases. If you have any questions (such as how to apply the tools to your own work), recommendations or additions, you can send a message to me (Eddie Hunsinger) at edynivn@gmail.com. If you would like to use, share or reproduce any information or ideas from the linked files, be sure to cite the respective source. Here is a neat article that gives this site some inspiration. Acknowledgments. Subscribe to new postings . Return to Eddie's homepage. http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~eddieh/toolbox.html#MedianCalculator
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    These tend to be US-centric, but there are universal tools here for statistical analysis.
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ELAN description | The Language Archive - 0 views

  • ELAN description ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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    ELAN description ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Tom Johnson

Socrata: Open Data Cloud Solutions for Government Organizations - 0 views

  • Make it easy for your organization to publish and manage public data You can achieve your organization’s transparency goals, cost-effectively, by streamlining the data publishing process and automating maintenance and updates. Internal stakeholders, in any department or agency, with little or no technical assistance, become first-class data publishers. While administrators manage the organization’s data in one central location, offer constituents a consistent and privately-branded online experience and get real-time data consumption and citizen engagement metrics.
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    Make it easy for your organization to publish and manage public data You can achieve your organization's transparency goals, cost-effectively, by streamlining the data publishing process and automating maintenance and updates. Internal stakeholders, in any department or agency, with little or no technical assistance, become first-class data publishers. While administrators manage the organization's data in one central location, offer constituents a consistent and privately-branded online experience and get real-time data consumption and citizen engagement metrics.
Tom Johnson

Michelle Minkoff » Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) - 0 views

  • Blog Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) Posted by Michelle Minkoff on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments I’ve gotten into the habit of posting daily learnings on Twitter, but some things require a more in-depth reminder. I also haven’t done as much paying as forward as I’d like (but I’m having a TON of fun!  and dealing with health problems!  but mostly fun!) I’d like to try to start posting more helpful tips here, partially as a notebook for myself, and partially to help others with similar issues. Today’s problem: I needed to search for a few lines of text, which could be contained in any one of nine files with 100,000 lines each. Opening all of the files took a very long time on my computer, not to mention executing a search. Enter the “grep” command in Terminal, that allows you to quickly search files using the power of the computer.
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    Blog Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) Posted by Michelle Minkoff on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments I've gotten into the habit of posting daily learnings on Twitter, but some things require a more in-depth reminder. I also haven't done as much paying as forward as I'd like (but I'm having a TON of fun! and dealing with health problems! but mostly fun!) I'd like to try to start posting more helpful tips here, partially as a notebook for myself, and partially to help others with similar issues. Today's problem: I needed to search for a few lines of text, which could be contained in any one of nine files with 100,000 lines each. Opening all of the files took a very long time on my computer, not to mention executing a search. Enter the "grep" command in Terminal, that allows you to quickly search files using the power of the computer.
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    An easy to use method for content analysis
Tom Johnson

The Overview Project » Using Overview to analyze 4500 pages of documents on s... - 0 views

  • Using Overview to analyze 4500 pages of documents on security contractors in Iraq by Jonathan Stray on 02/21/2012 0 This post describes how we used a prototype of the Overview software to explore 4,500 pages of incident reports concerning the actions of private security contractors working for the U.S. State Department during the Iraq war. This was the core of the reporting work for our previous post, where we reported the results of that analysis. The promise of a document set like this is that it will give us some idea of the broader picture, beyond the handful of really egregious incidents that have made headlines. To do this, in some way we have to take into account most or all of the documents, not just the small number that might match a particular keyword search.  But at one page per minute, eight hours per day, it would take about 10 days for one person to read all of these documents — to say nothing of taking notes or doing any sort of followup. This is exactly the sort of problem that Overview would like to solve. The reporting was a multi-stage process: Splitting the massive PDFs into individual documents and extracting the text Exploration and subject tagging with the Overview prototype Random sampling to estimate the frequency of certain types of events Followup and comparison with other sources
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    Using Overview to analyze 4500 pages of documents on security contractors in Iraq by Jonathan Stray on 02/21/2012 0 This post describes how we used a prototype of the Overview software to explore 4,500 pages of incident reports concerning the actions of private security contractors working for the U.S. State Department during the Iraq war. This was the core of the reporting work for our previous post, where we reported the results of that analysis. The promise of a document set like this is that it will give us some idea of the broader picture, beyond the handful of really egregious incidents that have made headlines. To do this, in some way we have to take into account most or all of the documents, not just the small number that might match a particular keyword search. But at one page per minute, eight hours per day, it would take about 10 days for one person to read all of these documents - to say nothing of taking notes or doing any sort of followup. This is exactly the sort of problem that Overview would like to solve. The reporting was a multi-stage process: Splitting the massive PDFs into individual documents and extracting the text Exploration and subject tagging with the Overview prototype Random sampling to estimate the frequency of certain types of events Followup and comparison with other sources
Tom Johnson

Submishmash: Submission Manager | Tour - 0 views

  • Submishmash Home Home Pricing Tour Blog Support Login How does it work? Submishmash empowers publishers and websites to accept any type of submission or easily run contests. In a few simple steps, you can immediately begin accepting manuscripts, artwork, applications, resumes, or multi-media like MP3s or videos. Be up and running in 5 minutes. Step 1: Sign Up Step 2: Customize your application (5 minutes) Step 3: Create a link in your website to your manager (i.e. http://ORGANIZATIONNAME.submishmash.com) Step 4: Immediately begin accepting submission, applications, or contest entries!
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    Submishmash Home Home Pricing Tour Blog Support Login How does it work? Submishmash empowers publishers and websites to accept any type of submission or easily run contests. In a few simple steps, you can immediately begin accepting manuscripts, artwork, applications, resumes, or multi-media like MP3s or videos. Be up and running in 5 minutes. Step 1: Sign Up Step 2: Customize your application (5 minutes) Step 3: Create a link in your website to your manager (i.e. http://ORGANIZATIONNAME.submishmash.com) Step 4: Immediately begin accepting submission, applications, or contest entries!
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    If you work with freelance contributions, this might be a helpful tool.
Tom Johnson

ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes - 0 views

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    ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide. Anyone can use our service to monitor any website page for changes. Just fill in the form below, we will create a change log for the page and alert you by email when we detect a change in the page text. We've been doing it since 1999. It's free.
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Google Map Sheet - 0 views

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    Mapping Sheets Another favorite Google Drive add-on of mine is definitely Mapping Sheets. With this add-on, you can make better use of any geographical data you may have in your spreadsheet. If you've ever wanted an easy way to quickly plot locations from your data onto a Google Map, this is it. drive addons8   5 Google Drive Add ons You Need To Use Using it is ridiculously easy. Just make sure you've got a list of addresses and other related data in your sheet, and then trigger this add-on. You'll see a form where you tell it what columns in your sheet to use for creating the map. drive addons9   5 Google Drive Add ons You Need To Use Once you submit it, the add-on creates the map right in the sheet for you so that you have a useful visualization of all of that data.
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mapping texts/texas - 0 views

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    Assessing Language Patterns: A Look at Texas Newspapers, 1829-2008 This visualization plots the language patterns embedded in 232,567 pages of historical Texas newspapers, as they evolved over time and space. For any date range and location, you can browse the most common words (word counts), named entities (people, places, etc), and highly correlated words (topic models). [ About Mapping Texts ]
Tom Johnson

The Overview Project » Document mining shows Paul Ryan relying on the the pro... - 0 views

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    Document mining shows Paul Ryan relying on the the programs he criticizes by Jonathan Stray on 11/02/2012 0 One of the jobs of a journalist is to check the record. When Congressman Paul Ryan became a vice-presidential candidate, Associated Press reporter Jack Gillum decided to examine the candidate through his own words. Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests and 9,000 pages later, Gillum wrote a story showing that Ryan has asked for money from many of the same Federal programs he has criticized as wasteful, including stimulus money and funding for alternative fuels. This would have been much more difficult without special software for journalism. In this case Gillum relied on two tools: DocumentCloud to upload, OCR, and search the documents, and Overview to automatically sort the documents into topics and visualize the contents. Both projects are previous Knight News Challenge winners. But first Gillum had to get the documents. As a member of Congress, Ryan isn't subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Instead, Gillum went to every federal agency - whose files are covered under FOIA - for copies of letters or emails that might identify Ryan's favored causes, names of any constituents who sought favors, and more. Bit by bit, the documents arrived - on paper. The stack grew over weeks, eventually piling up two feet high on Gillum's desk. Then he scanned the pages and loaded them into the AP's internal installation of DocumentCloud. The software converts the scanned pages to searchable text, but there were still 9000 pages of material. That's where Overview came in. Developed in house at the Associated Press, this open-source visualization tool processes the full text of each document and clusters similar documents together, producing a visualization that graphically shows the contents of the complete document set. "I used Overview to take these 9000 pages of documents, and knowing there was probably going to be a lot of garbage or ext
Tom Johnson

8 must-reads detail how to verify information in real-time, from social media, users | ... - 0 views

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    8 must-reads detail how to verify information in real-time, from social media, users Craig Silverman by Craig Silverman Published Apr. 27, 2012 7:46 am Updated Apr. 27, 2012 9:23 am Over the past couple of years, I've been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks. This form of verification involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them. It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members. For example, lots of people talk about how Andy Carvin does crowdsourced verification and turns his Twitter feed into a real time newswire. Lost in the discussion is the fact that Carvin also develops sources and contacts on the ground and stays in touch with them on Skype and through other means. What you see on Twitter is only one part of the process. Some things never go out of style. At the same time, there are new tools, techniques and approaches every journalist should have in their arsenal. Fortunately, several leading practitioners of what I sometimes call the New Verification are gracious and generous about sharing what they know. One such generous lot are the folks at Storyful, a social media curation and verification operation that works with clients such as Reuters, ABC News, and The New York Times, among others. I wrote about them last year and examined how in some ways they act as an outsourced verification service for newsrooms. That was partly inspired by this post from Storyful founder Mark Little: I find it helps to think of curation as three central questions: * Discovery: How do we find valuable social media content? * Verification: How do we make sure we c
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T-LAB Tools for Text Analysis - 0 views

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    The all-in-one software for Content Analysis and Text Mining Hello We are pleased to announce the release of T-LAB 8.0. This version represents a major change in the usability and the effectiveness of our software for text analysis. The most significant improvements concern the integration of bottom-up (i.e. unsupervised) methods for exploratory text analysis with top-down (i.e. supervised) approaches for the automated classification of textual units like words, sentences, paragraphs and documents. Among other things, this means that - besides discovering emerging patterns of words and themes from texts - the users can now easily build, apply and validate their models (e.g. dictionaries of categories or pre-existing manual categorizations) both for classical content analysis and for sentiment analysis. For this purpose several T-LAB functionalities have been expanded and a new ergonomic and powerful tool named 'Dictionary-Based Classification' has been added. No specific dictionaries have been built in; however, with some minor re-formatting, lots of resources available over the Internet and customized word lists can be quickly imported. Last but not least, in order to meet the needs of many customers, temporary licenses of the software are now on sale; moreover, without any time limit, the trial mode of the software now allows you to analyse your own texts up to 20 kb in txt format, each of which can include up to 20 short documents. To learn more, use the following link http://www.tlab.it/en/80news.php The Demo, the User's Manual and the Quick Introduction are available at http://www.tlab.it/en/download.php Kind Regards The T-LAB Team web: http://www.tlab.it/ e-mail: info@tlab.it
Tom Johnson

Protovis - Circle Packing - 0 views

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    Enclosure diagrams are also space-filling, using containment rather than adjacency to represent the hierarchy. As with adjacency diagrams, the size of any node in the tree is quickly revealed. Although circle packing does not use space as efficiently as a treemap, the "wasted" space effectively reveals the hierarchy. At the same time, node sizes can be rapidly compared using area judgments. By flattening the hierarchy, the pack layout can also be used to create bubble charts.
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Visualization contests around the corner - 0 views

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    Visualization contests around the corner May 25, 2011 to Contests | Comments (3) The best way to learn how to visualize data is to grab a dataset and see what you can do with it. You can read as many tips and tricks as you want, but you're not going to get any better until you actually try. Contests are a fun way to do this. Participate So here are a handful of visualization contests to get your hands dirty. Hey you might even win a couple of thousand dollars. Not that money matters to you, because as well all know, learning is your reward. Hacking Education - A contest for developers and data crunchers. DonorsChoose.org has inspired $80 million in giving from 400,000 donors, helping 165,000 teachers at 43,000 schools, and the donation site has opened up this data. Can do you do something with it? Deadline: June 30, 2011. Data In Sight - A hands-on competition in San Francisco's SoMa district with surprise data sources. Some talks, lunch, dinner, and a 24-hour hackathon. Event date: June 24, 2011 (better to register your team early). Tableau Interactive Viz Contest - This one is coming up the quickest, but is the most straightforward. Plus, you get a t-shirt just for entering. Grab some business, finance, or real estate data and go to town with Tableau Public. Deadline: June 3, 2011.
Tom Johnson

How to make searchable, Web-based Google charts | Poynter. - 0 views

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    How to make searchable, Web-based Google charts Michelle Minkoff by Michelle Minkoff Published June 3, 2011 12:01 am Updated June 2, 2011 10:22 pm A lot of data visualization requires the technical expertise of a programmer and skills that take time and resources to develop. A rise in free tools, however, has made it easier to make interactive graphs in charts, whether you're a designer, developer, Web producer or hobbyist. The Google Visualization API, for instance, gives you options without making the work too complicated. I've created a tutorial below to help you make simple, Web-based Google charts. (You can click on any of the screenshots to go to a larger version.) In the first example, we'll craft an interactive bar chart that compares the numbers of tornado-related deaths in the United States throughout the past four years. We'll use data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which can be found here. (You can download a cleaned version of this data here, formatted as a comma-delimited file, CSV.) http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/126595/how-to-make-simple-web-based-google-charts
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