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Tom Woodward

ONA15: How news organizations build simple bots to help report the news | Knight Lab | ... - 0 views

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weekly reporting journalism bots

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  • Tom Woodward on 11 Oct 15
     
    Really need to think about how to do more with this internally for some of the routine support stuff. "It's no secret that newsrooms are increasingly using bots to cut down on busy work. Software now routinely churns out quarterly earnings stories for The Associated Press and earthquake alerts for Los Angeles Times, freeing reporters to pursue more in-depth projects. And while no bot can write 3,000-word investigative stories, it can assist reporters by alerting them to new data and filtering the information for them."
Tom Woodward

Progress Report | Not So Far Far Away... - 0 views

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quote student vcu wordpress thoughtvectors

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  • Tom Woodward on 23 Oct 15
     
    " also share a lot of your concerns about specifics, but I think I've found a way to work my brain around it. You're absolute right; we've been conditioned to think in terms of exact numbers. We're used to being told our posts should be 200 words with 4 paragraphs and exactly 8 links to external sources, so that's how we've learned to function. I think this class has been great for me to retrain my brain to think creatively rather than within the confines of instructions. For length, I just make sure I answer the question. I ask myself if I feel that my answer is appropriate, or if I should go into more detail. It helps me if I stop focusing on the grade (as hard as that is) and instead focus on the assignment itself. If I can answer the question with detail in two sentences, I feel like two sentences is a perfectly fine entry. Most of the time, my entries are 2-3 paragraphs. I just write down what I'm thinking, rather than trying to filter through "Is this what Dr. Becker wants to see?" I think my work looks a lot better when I'm focused on what I think looks respectable, rather than trying to mold myself to what I think others may expect of me." h/t Jon
Tom Woodward

Crossfilter - 0 views

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javascript data filtering charts explorable_explanation text

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  • Tom Woodward on 27 Jul 15
     
    "Crossfilter is a JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely fast ( h/t Stan
Tom Woodward

Search Tracks on SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds - 1 views

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search tracks sounds audio music cc creativecommons copyright

shared by Tom Woodward on 08 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 08 Jan 15
     
    An interesting place to find/share/interact with audio. You can remix many of the tracks and make audio notes that are associated with specific points in time on the audio track. Easily embed in WordPress using just the URL to the page.
Yin Wah Kreher

Take A Look Inside The Infographic Mega-Tome, "Knowledge Is Beautiful" | The Creators P... - 0 views

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shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 11 Nov 14 - Cached
  • “I start with the idea, and usually a question. Something that typically stupefies me, bewilders me, or frustrates me,” McCandless tells The Creators Project in an interview. “And then the question becomes a concept, and the concept becomes a graphic.”
  • A great and effective data visualization begins with an accurate and well-structured data set, a compelling story and an intention or a goal for getting the information across, explains McCandless. The visual structure comes into play only at the end of the research stage, following the pages and pages of spreadsheets a reader never gets to see. “This work is about 80% research and 20% design,” he explains.
  • He felt he could relate.
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  • “A lot of people just visualize complex data,” says McCandless. “They’ll take the data without wrapping it in a story, filtering it in any way, humanizing it, or focusing on what’s interesting. Without doing that, you just translate the complexity into visual form.” A complex visualization is counterintuitive, he adds, because its purpose is to clarify and distill data. The strength of an idea is what carries it through each precise stage of the creation process, from data gathering through structuring and designing.
  • With visual language, McCandless can cut through the noise in information overload, uncover the insights locked within data, and decode the self-referential language that pervades knowledge.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 11 Nov 14
     
    dataviz project for ECAR stats
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