OpenNews Source

Projects and process from teams in newsrooms. Security, transparency, design, ethics. From @OpenNews (incubated @mozilla, project @CommunityPrtnrs).

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In part 1 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras prioritized areas for growth in her work, and identified a key next step: building up web dev skills with an online boot camp.

How much did the course help her as a news product manager? Here's part 2! https://t.co/hZ1AqqGbH3

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After a 4-week course in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, @madraekaras came away with a firmer command of frameworks for web development, and more confidence in communicating with dev teams.

Here's what the class brought to her work as a news product manager: https://t.co/hZ1AqqGJwB

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Following up on their VERY popular comparison of OCR tools for journalism, @documentcloud reviewed eight of the top tools for extracting tabular data from documents.

Figure out what can help you on your next project here: https://t.co/cFmVu9YKSp

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In part 2 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras writes about what a web development course added to her toolkit: a shared language and more confidence in communicating across teams.

https://t.co/hZ1AqqGbH3

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Using real-world documents — from neat & tidy to messy & handwritten — @documentcloud tested eight tools for extracting tabular data:

- Tabula
- pdfplumber
- PaddleOCR
- Excel
- Pinpoint
- Amazon Textract
- Azure Document Intelligence
- GPT-4 Vision

https://t.co/cFmVu9YKSp

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In part 1 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras prioritized areas for growth in her work, and identified a key next step: building up web dev skills with an online boot camp.

How much did the course help her as a news product manager? Here's part 2! https://t.co/hZ1AqqGJwB

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After a 4-week course in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, @madraekaras came away with a firmer command of frameworks for web development, and more confidence in communicating with dev teams.

Here's what the class brought to her work as a news product manager: https://t.co/hZ1AqqGbH3

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🧾💎 What's the best tool journalists can use right now to extract tabular data from documents? Sanjin Ibrahimovic of @documentcloud tested eight projects—from free to paid, desktop to cloud-based. Here are the results: https://t.co/cFmVu9Yd2R

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In part 2 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras writes about what a web development course added to her toolkit: a shared language and more confidence in communicating across teams.

https://t.co/hZ1AqqGJwB

[OpenNews Source @source]

Following up on their VERY popular comparison of OCR tools for journalism, @documentcloud reviewed eight of the top tools for extracting tabular data from documents.

Figure out what can help you on your next project here: https://t.co/cFmVu9YKSp

[OpenNews Source @source]

Using real-world documents — from neat & tidy to messy & handwritten — @documentcloud tested eight tools for extracting tabular data:

- Tabula
- pdfplumber
- PaddleOCR
- Excel
- Pinpoint
- Amazon Textract
- Azure Document Intelligence
- GPT-4 Vision

https://t.co/cFmVu9YKSp

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🧾💎🔢 What's the best tool journalists can use to extract tabular data from documents?

Sanjin Ibrahimovic of @documentcloud tested eight projects—from free to paid, desktop to cloud-based. Here are the results: https://t.co/cFmVu9Yd2R

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Between spotty reporting, suppression, and privacy issues, data stories about LGBTQ+ communities can be hard to report. But the push for discriminatory laws also means we need these stories more than ever.

These tips from @jazzmyth & @petrinkae can help:

https://t.co/zeFDY9jhTV

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"Data on LGBTQ+ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to relying on. At the end of the day, though, doing good LGBTQ+ data journalism is just doing good data journalism."

https://t.co/aP2iUbgHdC

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At @SRCCON last year, @petrinkae & @jazzmyth led a session on reporting with tricky, limited data about LGBTQ+ communities. They pulled together an amazing amount of guidance—conceptual, ethical, and technical—to share this two-part resource:

https://t.co/aP2iUbgHdC

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This roundup shares five tools to make your fact-checking life easier this election season:

🔍 Google’s Fact Check Explorer
🖼️ Google’s ‘About This Image’ feature
🗃️ MediaVault
📢 ClaimReview
📊 Fact-Check Insights

More from @ericalryan here👇

https://t.co/bjjCTyM2gn

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New on Source! @petrinkae & @jazzmyth share two pieces about doing good journalism with data about LGBTQ+ people, covering conceptual and ethical issues they've encountered as well as technical tips that can help you report with tricky data.

https://t.co/aP2iUbgHdC

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Newsrooms often devote more time to fact-checking during election season—for good reason! Here's a quick guide to 5 fact-checking tools that can help you make the most of that time:

https://t.co/bjjCTyMA5V

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"Knowing how to do something well and knowing how to teach it well are two overlapping, yet very distinct, skill sets."

The Data Journalism Teachers' Club is a new community for educators to get better at tools, techniques, and teaching methods together.

https://t.co/M1lG3Ll3zX

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Between spotty reporting, suppression, and privacy issues, data stories about LGBTQ+ communities can be hard to report. But the push for discriminatory laws also means we need these stories more than ever.

These tips from @jazzmyth & @petrinkae can help:

https://t.co/zeFDY9iK4n