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Facts Are Sacred: The Power Of Data (2000)

by Simon Rogers(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Strange book. The content is good, but the chapters just tend to end with little finality. The problem is that there is actually very little to read. This is two different books smushed into one: a look into info-journalism; a collection of cool info graphics. My problem with the book is that as you read the chapters, there are accompanying graphics that are tangentially connected to the narrative. Normally, you read a chapter and you see a graphic it actually further informs the argument. You would expect that a book about info journalism would actually inform the reader, but no. Instead you have decently written content randomly book-ended by graphics that distract rather than enlighten.
review 2: An interesting overview of the data journalism strategy ... moreused by The Guardian. Good descriptions of basic data analysis, and some excellent (often depressing) examples of different data sets used and made accessible by The Guardian. Implicit within it are hints for organisations making their data public, inlcluding don't use pdfs. Also highlights fact that once data is public, people will work out a way to analyse it. less

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