In early April, a group of developers and journalists announced the release of a new open-source tool to combat the scourge of public data trapped inside PDFs. Tabula is still in its early stages, but its lead developer says big changes are coming. Read More »
Extracting data from Web pages and online databases, also known as scraping, is often a code-intensive process. But we’ve tested two user-friendly programs that can help reporters get online data without doing a lot of the dirty work. Read More »
Former Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger said that before he retired the paper in late 2007, each investigative story cost up to $500,000. Figuring out how to foot that bill is important, but so is thinking about how to reduce it in the first place. Read More »
North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would criminalize a public official’s failure to release public information. Fifteen other states already classify record law violations as misdemeanors, but it might not be the prescription for opening up government. Read More »
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