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Tabula’s creator talks next steps 18 Apr 2013 | 08:12 pm
In early April, a group of developers and journalists announced the release of a new open-source tool to combat the scourge of public data trapped inside PDFs. Tabula is still in its early stages, but...
PolitiFact editor Bill Adair named Duke Knight chair 10 Apr 2013 | 12:22 am
Bill Adair, creator and editor of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning PolitiFact, has been appointed the Knight Professor of Computational Journalism at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Read ...
For watchdog stories, ‘who pays?’ is the wrong question 1 Apr 2013 | 11:12 pm
Former Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger said that before he retired the paper in late 2007, each investigative story cost up to $500,000. Figuring out how to foot that bill is importan...
Top tools for grabbing data, no coding necessary 28 Mar 2013 | 11:26 pm
Extracting data from Web pages and online databases, also known as scraping, is often a code-intensive process. But we've tested two user-friendly programs that can help reporters get online data with...
Should refusing public records carry jail time? 15 Mar 2013 | 06:31 pm
North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would criminalize a public official's failure to release public information. Fifteen other states already classify record law violations as misdeme...
Tips for making an impact with journalism tools 7 Mar 2013 | 07:41 pm
Since we launched the lab one year ago, our biggest challenge has been finding ways to get better tools into more journalists' hands. It's a tough problem, but landmark research on open-source success...
Data security or death 19 Feb 2013 | 01:40 am
On a recent episode of the Spark Tech Talk podcast, the lab's managing editor moderates a discussion among experts in electronic privacy and security -- an area growing more and more important for jou...
4 lessons from Computation + Journalism 2013 6 Feb 2013 | 10:29 pm
In more than a dozen sessions at the 2013 Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech, speakers covered a range of topics from the origins of "precision journalism" to the reporting implication...
Turning scanned documents into structured data 15 Jan 2013 | 02:50 am
A new open-source program under development at Raleigh Public Record aims to pull structured data from scanned-in public records. And ahead of its release at the 2013 Computer-Assisted Reporting Confe...
Discussing journalism’s computational future 4 Jan 2013 | 08:22 pm
A month before hundreds of tech-savvy journalists gather in Louisville for the 2013 Computer Assisted Reporting Conference, a different melding of the minds more than 300 miles away will focus on the ...
