Adventure inComputer-Assisted Reporting

AANLas Vegas

October, 2010

Julia Goldberg

What do we mean by computer-assisted reporting?

Not this…

Not This Either

Computer-Assisted Reporting

Mining the internet for data,working with the informationand presenting it to readers

Where’s the money?

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-4860-wheres-the-money.html

Socratapublic informationdatabasesembeddable

visualizations

Spreadsheets

the real reason you became a journalist was probably not

because you love spreadsheets

Spread sheet magic!

Google gadgets

Maps

Map mashupsgoogle maps

interactive mapsmapsmapsmaps

Parks

Zeemaps

Geobatch

Docs docs docstimeline

Data scraping

the next frontier

using tools to pull information off the web

Visualize This

Money bubbles

for all