Three MIT undergrads were the ones independently verifying the 13,000-story data set, agreeing on veracity over 90percentt of the time.
Solicit and manage comments from peers? "There is an enormous amount of water data out there, but data by itself doesn't tell the story; data are only numbers," said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute.
That's the "big data" story: Data-driven discovery will become the norm, driven by advances in computer science.
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People still asked if getting stories from data was really journalism and not everyone had seen the godfather of data journalism Adrian Holovaty's riposte.
I created a class called "Telling Stories With Data, Sensors and Humans," with the goal of determining whether sensors and data could become reporters and collect information.
