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Aspen Ideas Festival

The New Quantitave Journalism

Season 1 Episode 54

More and more news involves numbers, so the practice of good journalism increasingly demands deft mathematical problem solving. What are best practices for mixing quantitative reasoning, big data, and visualization into reporting? Are there costs as well as benefits? What is the future of data journalism going to look like?

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