From infections to mobility: Tips for finding and analyzing COVID-19 data
Infections / Mobility Organized crime is changing its trafficking routes, under the cover of COVID-19. Timber smugglers in the Amazon are boosting their trade in the absence of supervision. Unemployment and alcohol dependency rates are jumping, and climate change continues unabated. Fonte: International Journalists' Network Leia todo o texto Link: https://ijnet.org/en/story/infections-mobility-tips-finding-and-analyzing-covid-19-data?fbclid=IwAR0j0jJRAoNurvqLWfrPRW9xIVBhu3zEZoPNSO0tfQ07pLQwq6MBXU-lkJA Leia outros textos aqui
The Amazing Disappearing Election
Election / Media agenda Over the past six months, it has seemed like every news story is about the coronavirus, or President Donald Trump’s failed response to it. It’s been a challenge for even crucial issues like racial justice and police violence to break into the media agenda for more than a few days at a time. Fonte: The Atlantic Leia todo o…
COVID-19 Is Crushing Newspapers, Worsening Hunger for Accurate Information
COVID-19 / Newspapers David Erickson got the call directly from the publisher of the Missoulian, the Montana newspaper where he works as a reporter writing about business and housing. You might as well hear it first so you can break the news, the publisher told him earlier in August. The newspaper building, on the riverfront in a highly coveted part of downtown Missoula, was going…
How to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular basis
Google / Your data The company announced on Wednesday that auto-delete will be the default setting for user account activity settings. That said, this “default” setting only applies to new accounts or existing accounts that now turn on data retention after having it disabled. And the default auto-delete time still gives Google as much as three years of your data, as opposed to manual auto-delete…
Using LinkedIn for Social Research
LinkedIn / Social Research Back in 2012, when LinkedIn was close to the 200 million users mark, a young but very computational (and quite resourceful) assistant professor, hustled through his contacts and somehow managed to get access to the trove of LinkedIn data. Prasanna Tambe—at the NYU Stern School of Business at the time—was not the first to use the information on LinkedIn for research,…
