Stories by Clayton Aldern
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RJI Fellows Class of 2020–2021
There’s a saying in statistics: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” In other words, it’s a little quixotic to imagine we can capture the nuances of reality with simple models, but some of these models can make the complex more legible.
When journalists should care about p-values
December 7, 2020 -
RJI Fellows Class of 2020–2021
It’ll also be cheaper!
Your first web-scraping project will be easier than you think
October 5, 2020 -
RJI Fellows Class of 2020–2021
Or, a list of things you didn’t know you could copy-paste
Scrappy hacks for scrappy visual journalists
September 14, 2020 -
RJI Fellows Class of 2020–2021
Follow this 5 step guide to build an automated databiz bot for your readers
Build a real-time dataviz bot (for free!)
August 5, 2020 -
RJI Fellows Class of 2020–2021
What we learn at Grist will be used to translate these lessons into guides for other small or non-profit newsrooms
The promise of environmental data journalism
July 23, 2020
Donald W. Reynolds