Big Data in Practice: Enabling computational journalism through code-sharing and reproducible research methods

Digital Journalism

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 266-279

  Broussard, Meredith ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; code sharing; computational journalism; data journalism; publishing; reproducible research; transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977560275     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2015.1074863     Document Type: Article

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