Data Driven Journalism: The importance of numeracy for data journalists
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 09:43
Nicolas Kayser-Bril: “We need to convince journalism schools to teach math in a purpose-oriented fashion. As Gigerenzer said in a 2010 conference, students are taught trigonometry but how to understand risks proper…
Chase Davis: Applying Benford’s Law to CAR
Monday, 13 October 2008, 07:54
"In case you missed it at IRE Miami this year, Phil Meyer and Steve Doig put on a great panel about techniques reporters could and should be applying, but, for whatever reason, are not. One of the techniques Meyer mentioned is known as Benford's Law — a decades-old mathematical rule that forensic accountants have recently used to spot fraud by examining the distribution of individual digits in large dataset…"
Saturday, 16 June 2007, 19:47
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"Many go to journalism school because they like to write. They don’t think of themselves as techie-types and certainly not as math-types. But these two skills – understanding of technology and comfort with math and statistics – are ever more important for
