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1/10/13, "Programmers explain how to turn data into journalism & why that matters," Poynter.org, Jeff Sonderman
"Data can be wrong, misleading, harmful, embarrassing or invasive.
Presenting data as a form of journalism requires that we subject the
data to a journalistic process.
We should think of data as we think of any source. They give you
information, but you don’t just print everything a source tells you,
verbatim. You examine the information critically and hold yourself to
certain publishing standards — like accuracy,
context, clarity and
fairness. (under subhead, "Why they don't")...
"Is the data accurate? Unless you built that data set
yourself, you probably can’t be sure.
Even if it comes from a government
source, like the gun-owner database did, there’s a chance it contains
inaccurate data. (under subhead, "Why not publish this?")"...
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