Houston, Brant

Data for journalists: a practical guide for computer-assisted reporting / Brant Houston - 5th ed. - New York: Routledge, 2019. - xix, 231 p. PB

Previous editions titled: Computer-assisted reporting.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What data journalism and computer-assisted reporting is and why journalists use it -- Online resources : researching and finding data on the internet -- Gathering and analyzing text and social media -- Spreadsheets, part 1 : basic math for journalists -- Spreadsheets, part 2 : more math that matters -- Database managers, part 1 : searching and summarizing the query -- Database managers, part 2 : relational databases are everywhere -- Getting data not on the Web : how to find and negotiate for data -- Building your own database : how to develop exclusive sources -- Dirty data : how to fact check your data and clean it -- Doing the data journalism and computer-assisted reporting story : how to report and write with data.

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Computer-assisted reporting.
Journalism--Data processing.

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