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🌡️ Today, I'm happy to launch the "Reuters Climate Monitor," a live data dashboard that aims to track the slow-moving impact of climate change at the speed of the news. You can find it at reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE…
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Here's the latest lesson plan from "Truth-Telling 101," the introduction to data journalism I'm teaching at the School of Visual Arts.
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Whether she self-identifies as a data journalist or not, that was Lerner displaying the data state of mind I’ve promoted in class. palewi.re/docs/truth-telling…
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You can follow in her footsteps by merging an updated version of the city’s COVID statistics with Census data to see if the trend identified early on in the coronavirus story held up over time. palewi.re/docs/truth-telling…

Calculating context | Truth-Telling 101: How New York's leading newsrooms turn raw data into...

How demographic data can be used to enrich understanding

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🌡️ In less than a lifetime, heat waves have evolved from sporadic, isolated episodes to massive, cascading weather events that can blanket vast swaths of the planet for months or even years at a time.
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So many people were involved in the assembly of this work that I won't even try to name them all here. It's humbling to work at an institution this ambitious.
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And I'm grateful that they let the nerds take a big swing every once in a while. That's what drew me to data journalism in the first place.
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