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As Web designers, we face a daily struggle to keep pace with advances in technology, new standards and new user expectations. We spend a large part of our working life dipping in and out of recent developments in an attempt to stay both relevant and competitive, and while this is what makes our industry so exciting to be a part of, it often becomes all too easy to get caught up in the finer details. Responsive Web design , improved semantics and rich Web typography have all seen their fair share of the limelight over the last year, but two developments in particular mark true milestones in the maturation of the Web: “real-time data” and a more “personalized Web.” Since the arrival of the new Web, we’ve been enraptured by social media.
Real-Time Data And A More Personalized Web - Smashing Magazine
#ijf11: Lessons in data journalism from the New York Times | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
Follow this link or scroll to the bottom to start by hearing more from New York Times graphics editor Matthew Ericson on what kind of people make up his team and how they go about working on a story The New York Times has one of the largest, most advanced graphics teams of any national newspaper in the world. Yesterday at the International Journalism Festival, NYT deputy graphics editor Matthew Ericson led an in-depth two-hour workshop on his team’s approach to visualising some of the data that flows through the paper’s stories every day. He broke the team’s strategy down in to a few key objectives, the four main ones being:In October, 2010, during the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona , several investigative journalists explained how they managed to uncover corruption using network analysis. One of them, Dejan Milovac, wrote a story about a construction project on the Montenegrin coastline. He deconstructed the financial networks around the resort, and showed how local politicians were involved in an enterprise that was ostensibly going against all environmental rules. Below is the image illustrating result of the investigation:
Influence Networks: The six degrees of investigative journalism
Teaching Online Journalism » Timelines in journalism: A closer look
These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization . (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-word article that covers a lot of non-journalism work in this field, including the marvelous Gapminder World . (2) 7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization : This two-page PDF from EduCause provides a text-only explanation. Representing large amounts of disparate information in a visual form often allows you to see patterns that would otherwise be buried in vast, unconnected data sets. … Visualizations allow you to understand and process enormous amounts of information quickly because it is all represented in a single image or animation.
Teaching Online Journalism » 10 useful resources about data visualization
[Last updated: 18 April 2011 -- added statistical NLP book link] There is something extraordinarily rich in the intersection of computer science and journalism. It feels like there’s a nascent field in the making, tied to the rise of the internet. The last few years have seen calls for a new class of “ programmer journalist ” and the birth of a community of hacks and hackers . Meanwhile, several schools are now offering joint degrees . But we’ll need more than competent programmers in newsrooms.
A computational journalism reading list
L’ouverture des données publiques, et après ? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism
D'un récent voyage dans la Silicon Valley (merci aux amis du Orange Institute ), je rentre avec une conviction : tout ce que nous connaissions du web va changer à nouveau avec le phénomène des big data . Il pose à nouveau, sur des bases différentes, presque toutes les questions liées à la transformation numérique. En 2008, l’humanité a déversé 480 milliards de Gigabytes sur Internet. En 2010, ce furent 800 milliards de Gygabytes, soit, comme l’a dit un jour Eric Schmidt , plus que la totalité de ce que l’humanité avait écrit, imprimé, gravé, filmé ou enregistré de sa naissance jusqu’en 2003. Ces données ne sont pas toutes des oeuvres.

