Usage of the Jupyter Notebook in Data Journalism



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BuzzFeed

Jeremy Singer-Vine and Jon Templon of BuzzFeedNews publish the code and data for all data-backed article they write on GitHub. All code is shared as Jupyter notebooks:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything

Here is one article in particular:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidnoriega/vast-disparities-by-nationality-in-immigration-jailings



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And here is the GitHub repo containing all of the code and data used in the article:



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LA Times

The LA Times published an article exposing serious problems with how the LAPD have been reporting crimes.

http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-crime-stats-20151015-story.html



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The article was backed by a significant analysis that was published on GitHub:

https://github.com/datadesk/lapd-crime-classification-analysis



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