Meaning of data journalism | Babel Free

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A type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.

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“Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.”

“It attracted a “nascent data journalism community” including other journalists, developers, data scientists, advocates of open data and others who did not want simply to consume stories, but engage with the underlying facts.”

“Emma Pierson, a computer scientist and data scientist, studied 1 million matches on eHarmony and wrote up her results on the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight.”

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