[Sigia-l] the role of IAs in Data Journalism?

[eric scheid]

There's rising interest in a new form of journalism, one which has been
named Data Journalism. This is where journalists delve deep into massive
amounts of data and find the stories about the data. The UK Guardian has
been doing this with the Afghan war logs, those cables, UK health data, etc.

(This is distinct from Computer Aided Journalism which has been around for a
time in that while CAJ is about finding stories _within_ a mass of data, DJ
is about finding the stories _about_ the data.)

So .. massive amounts of data, various forms of taxonomies and indices,
various degrees of data purity, ... sounds like the kind of thing IAs get
involved into. And yet there's nary any discussion of Data Journalism in the
various IA venues. 

My question is what role can IAs have in these activities?

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