https://github.com/tomcardoso/journalism-data-intersection
A talk on working at the intersection of journalism and data science
https://github.com/tomcardoso/journalism-data-intersection
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A talk on working at the intersection of journalism and data science
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tomcardoso/journalism-data-intersection
- Owner: tomcardoso
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-06-10T04:59:42.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-09-22T04:41:47.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-17T09:38:46.588Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: data, data-journalism, journalism
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://tomcardoso.github.io/journalism-data-intersection/
- Size: 12 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Working at the intersection of journalism and data science
_Paul Klee, Castle and Sun, 1928._
This is the repository for a talk on data-driven journalism, originally given at the University of Toronto’s Data Sciences Institute as part of the [Summer Undergraduate Data Science Research Program](https://datasciences.utoronto.ca/suds-cohort-program-2022/) on June 10, 2022. The slides can be found here: https://tomcardoso.github.io/journalism-data-intersection/
Links to articles relevant to this talk:
- [**Bias behind bars: A Globe investigation finds a prison system stacked against Black and Indigenous inmates** (Oct. 24, 2020)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-investigation-racial-bias-in-canadian-prison-risk-assessments/)
- [**How we did it: How The Globe uncovered systemic bias in prisoners’ risk assessments** (Oct. 24, 2020)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-investigation-racial-bias-in-canadian-prisons-methodology/)
- [**Wage subsidies were meant to preserve jobs. In many cases, the $110.6-billion response padded bottom lines** (May 8, 2021)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-emergency-wage-subsidy-data-analysis/)
- [**Bankrupt firms tapped federal wage subsidy despite long odds of survival** (May 13, 2021)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bankrupt-firms-tapped-federal-wage-subsidy-despite-long-odds-of/)
- [**The Catholic Church in Canada is worth billions, a Globe investigation shows. Why are its reparations for residential schools so small?** (Aug. 7, 2021)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-catholic-church-canadian-assets-investigation/)
- [**Eviction factories: How Ontario’s tenants get trapped in a never-ending cycle with landlords** (Dec. 19, 2019)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-ontario-housing-rental-eviction-data-landlords-tenants/)
Some resources to check out:
- [Introduction to data-driven investigations](https://github.com/tomcardoso/intro-data-investigation)
- [Introduction to enterprise journalism](https://github.com/tomcardoso/intro-enterprise-journalism)
- [FOIs for data journalism talk](https://github.com/tomcardoso/foi-data-journalism)
- [Introduction to scraping](https://github.com/tomcardoso/intro-to-scraping)