Beyond rows and columns: Tracing the evolution of data journalism | The Center for Investigative Reporting Nearly 20 years since the passage of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act <http://www.justice.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_XVII_4/page2.htm>, which required agencies to provide records electronically, among other requirements, federal agencies still balk at releasing databases. In the U.S. and Canada, federal agencies release data in hard-to-process PDF files. In fact, that might be more commonplace today. At the local level, state and provincial laws vary widely. So you might be able to get data about day care centers in Texas easily, but, as CIR recently experienced, getting that data in California is virtually impossible. http://bit.ly/1pokSwL Source: http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/blog/post/beyond-rows-and-columns-tracing-evolution-data-journalism-6203 See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1pokSwL+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
