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http://newspaperturnaround.wordpress.com/

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Active Twitter Users Have Shorter Relationships [STATS]

Active Twitter Users Have Shorter Relationships [STATS]
MASHABLE! | APRIL 19, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1moHq

The romantic relationships of active Twitter users apparently don’t last as long as the rest of the population, ... read more

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http://www.pulsene.ws

Barbara I from my android

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Data Visualization for Non-Programmers | Knight Digital Media Center

For class on 3/29. The Ultramapping Community
Your full assignment overview is on Facebook and on this site.

For today:
What is data?
What is data visualization?
What is mapping?
Can mapping be reporting? Explain.
With video and mobile and tablets pushing reporting and writing into more visualization, what is the future of data vis and journalism?

Start here:
http://goo.gl/7pT8a (explainer maps) and here http://goo.gl/hBWX1 (data visualization and journalism)

Listen/view this together:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ (download this and play with it for next week)

In this tutorial, we'll look at some of the surprising capabilities locked away in Google Spreadsheets, including creating simplified data entry forms and applying Google Gadgets to spreadsheet data for visualization purposes. The first page of the tutorial shows a series of visualizations pulled in real-time from a Google spreadsheet. The pages that follow show exactly how to create them.
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/intro-dataviz/related/
(skip the sections about gadgets for now)

Group messaging, sharing, and augmented reality viewing:
http://goo.gl/nfjvR
http://color.com/
http://www.junaio.com/

Mapping social networks:
http://flowingdata.com/2008/03/12/17-ways-to-visualize-the-twitter-universe/

QR codes - leaving tracks, making trails
http://goo.gl/2jjJN (CNN on why and what are QR codes)
http://goo.gl/MWnL (five cool uses of QR codes)

The easiest and basics
google maps
http://www.geoprinter.com/catalog/mapmaker_process.php

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Next Assignment 3/29-4-12 Mapping - Google Docs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJLyUYRDIT5oMc_QNri4Kd-3Nx9BBVDId9Ohuy1QTlw/edit#

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Fill this out before class on Tuesday please.

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon - Look how they've curated this story

http://www.propublica.org/article/aftershock-the-blast-that-shook-psycho-platoon
Look at the sidebar with the timeline feature.

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

SXSW blog, day three: Meet the curators | The Economist

A good summary of the importance of curating in journalism today.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/03/sxsw_blog_day_three?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/meetthecurators

Here is a story that integrates curated tweets via storify.com to bring users up-to-date on Japan earthquake aftermath.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_645009.html

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Mar. 15th Links and Discussion points

Mar. 15th

1. Meet Harry Browne from DIT. Do a search and meet exercise (35-40 min.)
2. Look and discuss the sites I posted on Facebook. (30-40 min)
3. Thinking about your blogs and curation projects:
   http://goo.gl/AjNqC
4. Completing the curation projects. Discuss the elements we have included. Discuss what curation means. List specific elements where reporting and journalism skills and viewpoint will distinguish your site from any commercial website.
5. Work time for groups.
6. For Spring Break:

7. In class: Midterm conferences.Progress reports. Review your work as a curator.

   
   

   Out of class, due Mar. 29th:

   1. Audio Skills project: Create an edited, audio-based feature. Use garageband or audacity. You can add photos but you don’t have to. Tell the story with audio, like the example we discussed in class. Make the audio part of the curation project or your blog. 
   2. Are you keeping up with YOUR blog? 
   3. Present the curated sites when we return
   4. Read Chicagotalks.org

Barbara Iverson

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson 

Voices: News organizations must become hubs of trusted data in a market seeking (and valuing) trust

Read this over spring break so we can have a good talk about this, and the future of journalism, when we get back.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/voices-news-organizations-must-become-hubs-of-trusted-data-in-an-market-seeking-and-valuing-trust/

Posted by Barbara K. Iverson