The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "categorical data" ...
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Statistics for stories
Donald and LaFleur provide tips on how to analyze, organize and understand all things data-related in order to find statistics within the information. They give detailed explanations of types of data that reporters will encounter, and explain how to work with and break-down all of the different parts.
Tags: statistics; data; investigative reporting; statistical analysis; Gini coefficient; mean; median; range; rank; regression; continuous data; categorical data
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Trouble in the Walls: Defective Chinese drywal
LaFleur and Donald discuss using data when reporting - they stress the need to know what data you're looking at, and what are the best tools to use for analysis.
Tags: data; analysis; mixed categorical; continuous; indexes; Gini coefficient;
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Statistics For the Newsroom
LaFleur provides an explanation of the different types of data, including categorical and continuous. The idea of mixing these types is explored, and many examples of newspapers using statistics to find and flesh out stories are included.
Tags: Gini coefficient; categorical data; dichotomous data; ordinal data; continuous data
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Statistics for the Newsroom
This tipsheet is a good reference for how to safely and effectively incorporate statistics into your stories. The authors discuss various kinds of statistics, and give examples of the correct way to use each of them. The tipsheet also lists common errors and how to avoid them.
Tags: math; numbers; statistics; categorical data; mean; median; mode; average