Comments on: Code, Don’t Tell: Programming as an Essential Journalism Skill https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/ Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Links Delicious 2004 até Maio 2013 | daniela bertocchi https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-41987 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:59:00 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-41987 […] Code, Don’t Tell: Programming as an Essential Journalism Skill http://t.co/Lnq4zH73 #journalism […]

]]> By: Taylor Kate Brown » Blog Archive » Learning Ruby - https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-3150 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:45:47 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-3150 […] on Ruby’s friendliness to the English language and Dan’s background in journalism and eye-opening essay on how he coded SOPA […]

]]> By: Verktøy for datajournalistikk « Vox Publica https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-2076 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:02:34 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-2076 […] Dan Nguyen har skrevet en introduksjon til programmering i nyhetsredaksjoner med tittelen Code, Don’t Tell: Programming as an Essential Journalism Skill. I et avsnitt om “practical roadmap for non-programmers” anbefaler han Ã¥ opprette […]

]]> By: Scraping pdfs in Idaho, Ruby and mapping data or... — Paleomedia.orgPaleoMedia.org https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-2070 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:18:21 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-2070 […] been reading a lot about data journalism and thought I could follow some of the tutorials out there and create a nice little web scraper to […]

]]> By: In the age of big data, data journalism has profound importance for society | iPad Development https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-2069 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:15:08 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-2069 […] — and for newsroom developers, that means sharing your code. To put it another way, code, don’t tell. Sessions on Python, Django, mapping, Google Refine and Google Fusion tables were packed at NICAR […]

]]> By: Future of Journalism? | 404 System Error https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-2068 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:18:20 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-2068 […] — and for newsroom developers, that means sharing your code. To put it another way, code, don’t tell. Sessions on Python, Django, mapping, Google Refine and Google Fusion tables were packed at NICAR […]

]]> By: Jesse Garnier https://danwin.com/2012/02/code-dont-tell-programming-as-an-essential-journalism-skill/#comment-2060 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:13:35 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1913#comment-2060 Great piece.

Data is to programming what sources are to reporting. The greatest programmers in the world still need input and output.

The best datasets are of course the ones not presented for public consumption. Knowing what to look for and how to get it remains a huge part of the game.

Lance Williams would say get into a “documents state of mind.” Data are the new documents. Bradley Manning included, digital whistleblowers are the modern-day Deep Throats. Obtaining massively insightful datasets and knowing what to do with them is true 21st-century muckracking.

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