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Thursday, November 10
Who's sitting on local juries in Louisville, Kentucky?
by
JTJ
on Thu 10 Nov 2005 01:06 PM MST
A nice bit of AJ done by the folks at the Louisville
[Kentucky] Courier-Journal, who analyzed the jury pool and composition
in the C-J's home county. Some good thinking and moderate
statistical-lifting drives the series.
See http://tinyurl.com/cr98h "Jury not of their peers
In Jefferson County"
People who live in mainly African-American areas are less likely to serve than those from mostly white areas, a Courier-Journal analysis found.
Yes, Virginia, methodology DOES matter
by
JTJ
on Thu 10 Nov 2005 12:38 PM MST
A piece on calling the elections in Detroit:
MAKING A FORECAST: A secret formula helps producer call the election rightBY CHRIS CHRISTOFF
November 10, 2005 What was a viewer to believe?
As polls closed Tuesday, WDIV-TV (Channel 4) declared Freman Hendrix winner of Detroit's mayoral race by 10 percentage points.
WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) showed Hendrix ahead by 4 percentage points, statistically too close to call.
But WJBK-TV (Channel 2) got it right, declaring just after 9 p.m. that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was ahead, 52% to 48%, which turned out to be almost exactly the ... more »
Geocoding and the GISCorps
by
JTJ
on Thu 10 Nov 2005 12:24 PM MST
An interesting piece today from CNN on the value of geographers in the hurricane rescuse and recovery business.
See http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/11/10/gis.technology/ 'Geocoding' used to locate Katrina survivorsStreet addresses not very useful after hurricane hitBy Marsha Walton (CNN) -- Police, firefighters, and Coast Guard crews may be the first to come to mind when naming the lifesavers during disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. It might be time to add geographers to that list. In the sometimes desperate hours following Katrina's landfall, experts in geographic information services -- GIS -- helped search and rescue crews reach more than 75 stranded ... more »
Social Networks and Reporting
by
JTJ
on Thu 10 Nov 2005 12:03 PM MST
Our friend Sree Sreenivasan,
on the J-school faculty at Columbia, posts an interesting column on the
Poynter site today on social networking. Remember, "social networks" is/are not quite the same as Social Network Analysis, but they are close conceptual relatives.
Sree has linked to some valuable sites we didn't know about, so check out "Social Networking for Journalists" at http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=91496 |
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