Data modelling and statistics were performed in Microsoft Excel 2003 (Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA) and Data Desk 6.0 (Data Description, Ithaca, NY, USA).
For that matter, so is the work of the Los Angeles Times' Data Desk, which cleaned and analyzed California collision data to find the city's 817 most dangerous intersections.
Taylor Goldenstein is a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times Data Desk.
Statistical analysis was performed using the Linear Model facility in Data Desk 6.1.1 (Data Description, Ithaca, NY, USA).
We place interns throughout the L.A. Times: Metro/Local, Sacramento, Sports, Business, Features (Home, Image, Travel, Food, Mind & Body), Arts & Entertainment, Editorial Pages, Washington, D.C., bureau, Photography/Video, Data Desk, Visualization and Data, Design and latimes.com.
Calculations were made in Data Desk, version 6.2.
We constructed the databases in Foxpro® [ 15] (Microsoft® Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA), and conducted analyses in Data Desk® (Data Description Inc., Ithaca, NY, USA) and in SAS® (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA).
Several host organisations have begun to set up their own data desks, to convert and re-organise hard copy data into digital, downloadable formats that can inform and deepen their reporting and analysis.
We met in a windowless room behind the data center's security desk.
