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 "the Gini coefficient" ...
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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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Digging Deeper with Statistics
LaFleur discusses various types of statistics, including how to calculate and interpret them. She also reviews the differences between dichotomous data, ordinal data and continuous data, and what statisics are appropriate for each kind.
Tags: statistics; math; calculations; gini coefficient; data analysis
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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
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: data analysis; investigative techniques; the Gini coefficient; math
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I Dream of Gini and Other Cool Tools for Analyzing Data and Burrowing for Data in Ferret
This file contains a tipsheet on data analysis tools, such as indices, the Gini coefficient and percentiles, and a tipsheet on the best source for annual Census data -- the Current Population Survey.
Tags: CAR; data analysis
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Data Analysis and Census Data
This tipsheet file contains information on data analysis tools and census data. There is an article from Science magazine on the history of the U. S. census and the one-number census concept , a reprint of an article from Nieman Reports on using the Gini coefficient to measure income inequality, and a handout on the dissimilarity index.
Tags: CAR; data analysis