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Data Journalism
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FiveThirtyEight Uber TLC FOIL Response Data
FiveThirtyEight's public release of 6 months of Uber NYC pickup data obtained via FOIL request from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission — one of the most significant data journalism transparency moments in ride-share's early history. Made possible by public records law applied to a tech company's regulatory filings.
How Data Nerds Found a 131-Year-Old Sunken Treasure
FiveThirtyEight on locating the SS Republic shipwreck using Bayesian search theory — the same framework used to find Air France 447 and guide military submarine searches. A clear demonstration that search is a statistics problem as much as a logistics one.
How Data Changes Preconceptions About NFL Football
TechCrunch on how data analysis overturns conventional wisdom in NFL football — using statistical analysis to challenge received wisdom about weather, home field advantage, and other football beliefs. Part of the broader sports analytics wave that Moneyball had popularized.
London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics
Mozilla OpenNews writeup on data journalism techniques used during the 2012 London Olympics, covering how journalists used open data and visualization to create compelling stories. An early example of the data journalism craft crystallizing around concrete, time-pressured work.