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Difficult Analyses: Profiling stories and other challenges

Number 2748
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Source Mary Jo Sylwester; Steve Doig
State St. Paul Pioneer Press; Arizona State University
Year 2006
Publication Date Ft_Worth_IRE_Annual_2006
Summary Sylwester and Doig provide eight tips for reporters who are tackling projects that rely on a lot of data. They explain how to bring data from multiple sources together, deal with holes and/or problems with the data, change data into a usable format and much more. Sylwester and Doig also give a number of story examples that are relevant to the advice they are giving.
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