The Copy Editor

onaissues:

Visualizing the Occupy Wall Street protests: 

Mother Jones has put together this Occupy Wall Street map they continue to update and they are asking readers to submit new locations or news stories associated with the protests. They also have an excellent run down of how Occupy Wall Street is utilizing social media, along with charts, stats and ongoing coverage. 

The Daily Kos has mapped over 200 Occupy Wall Street groups using Facebook. Find the map and full list here. 

The Atlantic has a powerful photo gallery of the protests beyond New York, spanning from LA to Boston. 

motherjones:

Have to keep changing the zoom level on our Occupy Wall Street map—news reports say protests have spread to Anchorage, Hilo, Hawaii, several cities in Canada, and now Melbourne.

reporter-arm:

The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821

Ooof.

onaissues:

Explore large image collections with ImagePlot

“Existing visualization tools show data as points, lines, and bars. ImagePlot’s visualizations shows the actual images in your collection. The images can be scaled to any size and organized in any order - according to their dates, content, visual characteristics, etc. Because digital video is just a set of individual still images, you can also use ImagePlot to explore patterns in films, animations, video games, and any other moving image data.”

Read more on Flowing Data: Explore large image collections with ImagePlot

futurejournalismproject:

If you’re a data junkie, O’Reilly Radar has a freebie for you: its collected writings on big data since June 2010 published as an ebook.

Called Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O’Reilly Radar, the book covers:

Data issues — The opportunities and ambiguities of the data space are evident in this segment’s discussions around privacy, the implications of data-centric industries, and even in the debate about the phrase “data science” itself.

The application of data — An exploration of data applications showed that this segment is quickly expanding to include everything from data startups to established enterprises to media/journalism to education and research. A “data product” can emerge from virtually any domain.

Data science and data tools — The tools and technologies that drive data science are, of course, essential to this space, but the varied techniques being applied are also key to understanding the big data arena.

The business of data — This is all about the actions connected to data — the process of finding, organizing, and analyzing data that allows organizations of all sizes to improve and innovate.

Download (via O’Reilly).

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

futurejournalismproject:

IBM’s Visual Communications Lab created a tool that visualizes who’s writing what at the New York Times.

Via the VCL blog:

You begin by performing a search for a topic of interest. Pick a keyword you’re interested, such as “Tsunami”. This will fetch articles containing that term that were written in the last 30 days and build the visualization from them.

The above is the result for our search for “journalism.” The results, as explained by the VCL:

Each bubble represents a single human-created tag describing an article. The size corresponds to the overall frequency that specific tag was used to describe articles about your query by labeling a related article.

When you hover over a tag’s bubble you will see the other tags it was used with. The thickness of that connection will imply how frequently that pairing occurred.

You can play with NYT Writes here.

H/T: Flowing Data.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

visualturn:

“Poverty is a more powerful influence on test scores than value added by teachers and schools.” University of Texas physics Prof. Michael Marden’s visualization of the correlation between low SAT scores, poverty, and race.