November 9, 2015

NZ Herald promotes data

Today (assuming nothing went wrong overnight) the Herald is giving data journalism a much higher profile: Insights

Harkanwal Singh and Caleb Tutty have been working frantically to assemble and format the past data visualisations and do new stuff for the launch. You should check it out: the way to convince the Herald management that good local data journalism is more valuable than bogus UK health stories is for it to get pageviews.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »