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Aspen Ideas Festival

The New Quantitave Journalism

Jordan Ellenberg, David Leonhardt, Interviewer

06/29/2015 | Rating NR

Aspen Ideas Festival

The New Quantitave Journalism

Season 1 Episode 54 | 55m 33s

Jordan Ellenberg, David Leonhardt, Interviewer

More and more news involves numbers, so the practice of good journalism increasingly demands deft mathematical problem solving. What are best practices for mixing quantitative reasoning, big data, and visualization into reporting? Are there costs as well as benefits? What is the future of data journalism going to look like?

06/29/2015 | Rating NR

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The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.

Aspen Ideas Festival

The New Quantitave Journalism

Season 1 Episode 54 | 55m 33s

More and more news involves numbers, so the practice of good journalism increasingly demands deft mathematical problem solving. What are best practices for mixing quantitative reasoning, big data, and visualization into reporting? Are there costs as well as benefits? What is the future of data journalism going to look like?

06/29/2015 | Rating NR

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