https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/04/09/the-internet-didnt-make-trayvon-national-news-but-it-did-sustain-the-story/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/04/09/the-internet-didnt-make-trayvon-national-news-but-it-did-sustain-the-story/#comment-347 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:34:02 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=626#comment-347 Matt, I hope you’ll talk at some length about this piece in class. It’s a great study of the power and limits of using statistics to explain this sort of story. I’m particularly gratified that you began with a thesis and managed to disprove it to yourself in the course of your investigations. Some great stuff in here, and some questions about how to tighten the data analysis into one or two killer graphics.

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/04/09/the-internet-didnt-make-trayvon-national-news-but-it-did-sustain-the-story/#comment-339 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:09:22 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=626#comment-339 You found the only nice looking graphic! Which, of course, was done by Pablo Rey (@numeroteca). I’d be happy to introduce you, but check out the rest of numeroteca.org, too!

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/04/09/the-internet-didnt-make-trayvon-national-news-but-it-did-sustain-the-story/#comment-335 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:45:55 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=626#comment-335 Matt.. I love this Graphic http://numeroteca.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trayvon-march-3.png . You must teach me how to make them.

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