Resources

My Recent Presentations

• Baseball in the Age of Big Data
  ACE Conference, Cooperstown, April 2017
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• Baseball: The Information Game
  Rochester Baseball Historical Society,  October 2016
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• How to Tell Data Stories
  University of Indiana, May 2015
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• Baseball in the Age of Big Data
  SABR Annual Convention, August 2013
  Download as PDF – View online
• Intro to Database Journalism
  Rochester Institute of Technology, Taub Academy, July 2013
  Download as PDF
• Telling Stories with Data
  Hacks/Hackers Rochester, March 2013
  Download as PDF
• Big Data and Open Data
  Association of Research Libraries, October 2012
  Download as PDF
• The Myth of Jackie Robinson
  Sports History Conference, June 2012
  Download as PDF
• Telling Local Stories with Census Data
  Time Out for Diversity event, May 2011
  Download as Powerpoint | Download as PDF
• Digging into Census Data to Find Good Stories
  NY State Associated Press Association, Marist College, March 2011
  Download as Powerpoint | Download as PDF
• Interactive Census Workshop
  UC Berkeley Knight Digital Media Center, UC-Berkeley, December 2010 Summary report
• Developments in data access and visualization and their impact on information sharing
  Social Media and Communications Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology, December 2010

Recommended Sites

• The Data Journalism Handbook
• Scraping for Journalists
• Journalism in the Age of Data – Geoff McGhee’s documentary
• Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer’s “Narrative Visualization” | pdf
• The New Precision Journalism – revised edition of the classic book by Phillip Myer
• Flowing Data blog
• Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Dan Nguyen Dataist Blog: Coding for Journalists
• Jeffrey Heer video:  A Brief History of Data Visualization
• The Journalist as Programmer – Cindy Royal, Texas State University
• Database Journalism links – from Jack Lail of the Knoxville News Sentinel

Tutorials

Data Visualization

• Protovis tutorial
• List of DataViz tools
• KDMC tutorials
• KDMC links

Data Mining

• Data Mining course
• ProPublica: Scraping for Journalism

Mapping

• Google Maps
  • Google Maps API tutorial
  • Making maps with Google Fusion tables
  • Using Shapefiles with Google Maps
• GeoCommons
  • Lahman’s Tutorial (pdf)
  • Video tutorial
• Quantum GIS (QGIS)
  • Download
  • Tutorial (pdf)
• Interactive Maps with Flash
• Map tools at US Census

Other Tutorials

• Campfire Journalism – Google Maps, HTML, Multimedia, etc.  A collection of tutorials from Prof.Mark Berkey-Gerard of Rowan University
• Tumblr for Journalists – Matthew  Keys, KTXL Sacramento