Guardian: Wikileaks’ Afghanistan war logs: how our datajournalism operation worked
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 13:05 via Delicious/martinstabe
"The data came to us as a huge excel file – over 92,201 rows of data, some with nothing in at all or were the result of poor formatting. Anything over 60,000 rows or so brings excel down in dramatic fashion – saving takes a painfully long period of time (tip number one – turn automatic saving off in preferences…). It doesn't help reporters trying to trawl through the data for stories and it's too big to run meaningful reports on. Fortunately, after COINS, huge datasets hold no fear for us. ..." Read More...
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1. yituagar | 27 July 2010 at 1335
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2. alexgamela | 27 July 2010 at 1833
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