4 free data tools for journalists (and snoops) Note: The following is an excerpt from Pete Warden’s free ebook “Where are the bodies buried on the web?
Big data for journalists.” There’s been a revolution in data over the last few years, driven by an astonishing drop in the price of gathering and analyzing massive amounts of information. It only cost me $120 to gather, analyze and visualize 220 million public Facebook profiles, and you can use 80legs to download a million web pages for just $2.20. Those are just two examples. Refine, reuse and request data. Infographics & Data Visualizations - Visual.ly.