"Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions," Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations This chapter gave practical examples of something I've been saying from almost the first day of my data analysis journey -- that it's absolutely fundamental that the decisions behind the analysis are shown to the reader/user Read More...
I am, for the second time in two days, going to bring up Derek Willis, member of the Interactive News Technology Group at the New York Times and one of my current professors. Corny as this sounds, that class has literally changed my life, as I have reaffirmed my desire to become one of that sadly rare breed of journalists with programming skills Read More...
I recently returned from my spring break trip to Paris. Besides my obligatory Eiffel Tower at sunset trips, eating copious amounts of escargots and pain au chocolat -- not together, obviously -- the other reason I was there was for an international media seminar trip with Northwestern. Meeting with foreign correspondents, online journalists, authors and marketers, we also had the opportunity to visit several media organizations -- newspapers and tv stations Read More...
As some of you may know, my reporting beat at Medill right now is medical research. One of my recent struggles has been fulfilling my class' requirements for taking pictures, which is tough to do when dealing with large Chicago hospitals. Perseverance can get you to speak to the chief of surgery, but it's very hard to get in the door to take a photo Read More...
What I'm about to say may mystify you, as I virtually throw myself over the bridge, in front of the bus, whatever metaphor you choose. Whatever happened to accountability for fact errors in journalism? Yes, as a practicing journalist I realize just how easy it is to make a fact error accidentally Read More...
I have a problem. I'm interested in too much. After the first week of my second quarter at Medill, I have eight story ideas I'm working on. To give you some perspective, we are supposed to have 15 done by the end of the quarter. There are 11 weeks in a quarter. 8 times 11 = 88. 88 does not equal 15 Read More...
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