Online Journalism Blog: Data journalism stats time: seasonal adjustment

Posted on 18 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"When you start to base journalism around data it’s easy to overlook basic weaknesses in that data – from the type of average that is being used, to distribution, sample size and statistical significance. [One] factor to consider when looking at any figures is seasonal adjustment."

Online Journalism Blog: Data cleaning tool relaunches: Freebase Gridworks becomes Google Refine

Posted on 11 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"Google bought the company that made Gridworks, and now it’s released a new version of the tool under a new name: Google Refine. It’s notable that Google are explicitly positioning Refine in their video (above) as a 'data journalism' tool."

NYTimes Open Blog: Using the Congress API With Spreadsheets

Posted on 30 May, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"If you’d like to use our Congress API but aren’t a programmer or Web developer, you still have a chance. Take the venerable spreadsheet, for example. Standard features of Windows versions of Microsoft Excel and of Google Spreadsheets make it possible to load data from the API directly into those applications."

Martin Stabe

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Online Journalism Blog: Data journalism stats time: seasonal adjustment

Online Journalism Blog: Data cleaning tool relaunches: Freebase Gridworks becomes Google Refine

NYTimes Open Blog: Using the Congress API With Spreadsheets