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Web Scraping: A Journalist’s Guide
Do you remember when Twitter lost $8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer...
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On the Ethics of Web Scraping and Data Journalism
Photo by Caresse Ley. Web scraping is a way to extract information presented on websites. As I explained it in the first instalment of this article, web scraping is used by many companies. It’s also a...
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Do Russian Media Get a Boost from Bots on Twitter?
Hundreds of what appear to be Twitter bots are artificially inflating the retweet and favorite counts of tweets with links to articles from some of Russia's top news agencies. Lawrence Alexander...
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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
Here are the top data journalism tweets for Apr 3-9, per our NodeXL mapping: #fakenews guide (@PublicDataLab); election bots (@d1gi); data story rules (@surendranb); China climate risk (@nytimes); UK...
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Web Scraping: A Journalist’s Guide
Do you remember when Twitter lost $8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer...
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On the Ethics of Web Scraping and Data Journalism
Photo by Caresse Ley. Web scraping is a way to extract information presented on websites. As I explained it in the first instalment of this article, web scraping is used by many companies. It’s also a...
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Do Russian Media Get a Boost from Bots on Twitter?
Hundreds of what appear to be Twitter bots are artificially inflating the retweet and favorite counts of tweets with links to articles from some of Russia’s top news agencies. Lawrence Alexander...
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Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
Here are the top data journalism tweets for Apr 3-9, per our NodeXL mapping: #fakenews guide (@PublicDataLab); election bots (@d1gi); data story rules (@surendranb); China climate risk (@nytimes); UK...
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Beyond 800 Words: New Digital Story Formats
The 800-word article is still the dominant form of online news from most publishers. This largely seems to be a legacy from printed newspapers, but to a lesser extent this is true for online news video...
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Journalism Bots: A Quick History and Ideas for Use in Your Newsroom
Bots — applications that perform automated tasks — are becoming increasingly commonplace in newsrooms, as a growing number of publishers experiment with various services to expand their coverage, help...
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Argentina’s Chequeado Becomes Global Leader in Fact-Checking
Taking it to the Streets: Chequeado set up giant board games in five Argentine cities to spread word about their investigations. Credit: Chequeado’s Facebook Page Español It was a sunny day in May when...
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This Week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from March 5 to 11 finds everyone keenly sharing data tipsheets from @IRE_NICAR‘s NICAR18 conference,...
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This Week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from March 12 to 18 finds disturbing news from @NASAEarth about low Arctic sea ice and temperature...
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GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Simon Says, AI’s Breakthrough Year and Global...
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 4 to 10 finds an awesome curated list of resources for visualizing music by @Willian_justen, a...
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Egyptian Bots, Pocket Inequality, Loner Jobs and Knife Emergencies
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from Aug 13 to 19 finds @puddingviz proving that women’s pockets are inferior to men’s once and for all,...
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How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
Over the past two years, words like “bots,” “botnets” and “trolls” have entered mainstream conversations about social networks and their impact on democracies. However, malicious social media accounts...
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9 Types of Visual Storytelling on Mobile
Image: Pexels In September 2017, the lead producer for the BBC Internet Research & Future Services, Tristan Ferne, identified 12 different story formats used in digital news. With new formats...
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How Innovative Newsrooms Are Using Artificial Intelligence
العربية | বাংলা | 中文 | Français | Português | Русский | Español Image: Gerd Altmann / Creative Commons Many large newsrooms and news agencies have, for some time, relegated sports, weather,...
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What We’re Reading: Who Killed Léo Veras, China’s Twitter Propaganda, and...
PexelsImage: Pexels This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes Abraji’s report on the investigation into the murder of journalist Léo...
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Web Scraping: A Journalist’s Guide
Do you remember when Twitter lost $8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer...
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