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Data Journalism - A Quick & Practical Guide

14 Reading Resources

14.0.0.1 Reading 

Amy Webb future of journalism trends

https://futuretodayinstitute.wetransfer.com/downloads/0e84e883e140bafe9a3436a6464032be20171003123607/ecda17

Google search tips

https://blog.expertisefinder.com/top-6-google-search-tips-for-journalists/

Artificial intelligence in the news

https://aiethicsinitiative.org/news/2019/3/12/artificial-intelligence-and-the-news-seven-ideas-receive-funding-to-ensure-ai-is-used-in-the-public-interest

Sharon Machlins Nicar compilation site

http://www.machlis.com/nicar19.html

Seth C. Lewis, et al. “Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, Expertise, Economics and Ethics,” Digital Journalism, 2015

14.0.1 MISC

R Markdown: http://bit.ly/2DBLSaX

Video:

https://video.uark.edu/media/R+Markdown1/0_k08o7izd

  Twitter analysis of Trump Tweets

http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/

Twitter historical API

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tutorials/choosing-historical-api

Exercises: GGPLOT Cookbook

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/profrobwells/CovidFall2020/master/Exercises/ggplot%20cookbook%204-26-20.Rmd

  • Data Visualization Basics

    Load tutorial: Basic Data Visualization 12-26-18.R

Download this file and open it in R Studio

Adapt Machlis - Maps in R Ch 11 exercise for Median Income in Arkansas Maps in R March 24 2019 - Using the Census API https://bit.ly/2FvZDrB

  Building a Census tract map
  
Map Demo: Interactive Map.R
Adapt Machlis - Maps in R Ch 11 exercise for Median Income in Arkansas
![You will make this in the class]TK TK Images/ARmed_income3-22-19.png

Assignment Proposal: Interactive Map.

  Students will use R Studio to build interactive maps of Arkansascovid occupational data in        Arkansas. Results will be posted on GitHub. Data dictionary required

tran mapping-census-data.html

TK TK TK Test Canvas: Excel Quiz

Quiz - Math and R Splitting Hashtags 2-25-19.R
https://bit.ly/2BQIE2i

14.0.2 Exercises 

Extracting Text Strings from data

https://bit.ly/2X5V9jL

Splitting Hashtags 2-25-19.R

https://bit.ly/2BQIE2i

R Markdown to distribute findings to Stanford, Feb 2020

https://profrobwells.github.io/HomelessSP2020/SF_311_Calls_UofA.html

Machlis Chs. 17 & 18
Census Reporter to look up tables

https://censusreporter.org/

14.0.3 Text Mining and Data Scraping

Simple Web Scraping Continue With Text Mining Turn your R cheatsheet into a PDF Turn your R cheatsheet into a web page on GitHub Coulter Bigrams - Score
TK TK Images/Coulter bigram score.jpeg)

  Kavanaugh text mining story: Text analysis of Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion.

http://www.storybench.org/bringing-textual-analysis-tools-to-judge-brett-kavanaughs-latest-opinion/

  Text Mining with R

https://www.tidytextmining.com/ Ch. 1 The Tidy Text Format Ch. 2 Sentiment Analysis

AOC-Coulter Data Mining Exercise: 
Coulter Tweet Analysis #2 Exercise

https://bit.ly/2TdY9Mv Key to the exercise:
https://bit.ly/2F3brlh

  Text Mining with R

https://www.tidytextmining.com/ Ch 3 Analyzing word and document frequency: tf-idf

  Web Scraping in R: Simple Web Scraper

http://bit.ly/scrapeme

 Machlis Ch. 15 Simple Web scraping

14.0.4 MAPS

We will build this

TK TK Images/Income by Census Tract Washington Co.png)    

  Video of Machlis mapping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFJOV5XaU_U See R script: Maps in R March 24 2019 https://bit.ly/2FvZDrB

Maps Andrew Ba Tran - Mapping https://nicar.r-journalism.com/docs/ http://learn.r-journalism.com/en/mapping/
Data Cleaning
Disaggregating variables for summation
Mapping

APIs
Census API Exercise
tran mapping-census-data.rmd


      Mapping Demo: Map Demo 6th Lesson 8-22-2020.Rmd
      Mapping Exercise from Machlis book, Ch. 11

https://bit.ly/2VXCSU2 Ch. 11 Maps in R Machlis Ch. 11 Maps in R

 Using R  for Math  
 y

https://github.com/profrobwells/CovidFall2020/blob/master/Exercises/Slicing-Dicing%20Data%2010-14-2020.Rmd

–Extra Discussion Lubridate Review Ch. 13 Machlis Review Tran and Lubridate

Assignment1_KEY_StaticGraphic_2_9.R    
Dplyr bootcamp.

-Date Corrected Data https://video.uark.edu/media/Date+Corrected+Data/1_2rmzgzwu

    StackOverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46691933/r-sort-by-year-then-month-in-ggplot2

14.1 Twitter Exercises 

    Coulter Tweet Analysis #2 Exercise
    https://bit.ly/2TdY9Mv
    
    Twitter exploration exercise
    https://bit.ly/2Sqn1j1
    
    Return to Twitter Engagement
    http://bit.ly/2GParD5
    
    AOC Twitter feed   
    https://bit.ly/2Sqn1j1  
    
    Discuss Twitter Metadata     
    https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/user-object   
    
    Study Twitter meta data  
    https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object.html
    Look at this example: Ocasio.csv
    
    Twitter analysis of Trump Tweets
    http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
    
    Show Collins results

  • Bots

      Bot or Not: Difficulty determining a bot on Twitter    

  An app that uses machine learning to guess if a Twitter account is a bot   
  https://www.r-bloggers.com/botrnot-an-r-app-to-detect-twitter-bots/    
  https://mikewk.shinyapps.io/botornot/    

  Article about Botometer   
  https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/4/9/17214720/pew-study-bots-generate-two-thirds-of-twitter-links   

  Stanford research paper on this topic    
  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e219/6b47133c2191d380098744c13ba77133e625.pdf