data journalism
data journalism noun: a type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.
Noun
data journalism (uncountable)
- A type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.
- Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.2011 July 28, Simon Rogers, “Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- It attracted a “nascent data journalism community” including other journalists, developers, data scientists, advocates of open data and others who did not want simply to consume stories, but engage with the underlying facts.2021 September 13, Pamela Duncan, “‘Numbers you can tell stories with’: a decade of Guardian data journalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Questions about data journalism
- What does data journalism mean?
- Data journalism means a type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.
- What part of speech is data journalism?
- Data journalism is a noun.
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