Analyzing documents with the help of the crowd

Tyler Dukes//July 26, 2012

A Duke computer scientist and his students are hoping their project will help journalists analyze massive dumps of public records by harnessing the power of the crowd with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Read More »

The Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer removes his costume panda head before demonstrating PANDA, an open-source database system developed by Investigative Reporters and Editors.

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How a conference taught me I know nothing

Tyler Dukes//February 28, 2012

The 2012 Computer-Assisted Reporting conference in St. Louis provided journalists with plenty of new reporting tools. Here’s our top-15 list of applications and websites from the weekend. Read More »

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