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ProPublica has some great material on techniques for data journalism, including scraping and transforming unfriendly data formatting: https://www.propublica.or
by adricnet 11y ago
ProPublica has some great material on techniques for data journalism, including scraping and transforming unfriendly data formatting:
https://www.propublica.org/nerds https://www.propublica.org/nerds
- baldfat 11y agoThe URL is nerds??? I look at the page and there was nothing on there that seems to show it as a acronym either. Just the title of the blog. Not sure I like that.
- sp332 11y agoIt's what their News Apps team calls themselves. https://twitter.com/propubnerds https://twitter.com/propubnerds
- minikites 11y agoI'm skeptical of a complaint like this from someone who voluntarily chose the handle "baldfat".
- baldfat 11y agoBald and Fat is what I am. 6" 1" 230 pounds and I am bald like Cpt Picard since I was 25. Nerd has a negative connotation as opposed to Geek. I know seems weird but getting called nerd was very negative before Geek/Nerd was cool. Definition: 1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person. 2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd. [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nerd?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nerd?r=75&src=ref&ch=...
- adricnet 11y agoI was looking for these articles when I posted earlier, very nice tutorials for EG that data you want that is only presented as a Flash applet: https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-collecting-the-data https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-col...