The Scoop: The Gift of Data
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 08:36 via Delicious/martinstabe
Derek Willis on providing local context to a national story using data: You can’t provide locally relevant information for a mass audience in a story ... That constraint – which still exists on the web, albeit it less so than for print publications – makes it easier to justify working with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows of data to build an interface that allows readers to find out about polluters or drinking water systems close to them." Read More...
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