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"The underexplored area in journalism is big data" – Stanford’s computational journalism offers distinct tools for better storytelling

"We’re empowering students to produce work that is multimedia, data-intensive, entrepreneurial and influenced by design thinking. This has the impact to change laws and policy,"

Stanford’s data-driven journalism program gives students powerful new ways to explore complex stories of public and social significance. The program blends computers and storytelling while upholding the journalistic values of accuracy and relevance.

"Data analysis also gives journalists an avenue through which they can become better public servants, by digesting normally incomprehensible data and telling our community a story that explains why it should matter,"

By Clifton B. Parker

Full Story: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/hamilton-computational-journalism-031315.html

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