Antebellum Data Journalism: Or, How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln
ProPublica Guest curated by John Burn-MurdochProPublica’s Scott Klein delves more than 150 years into the past to tell the tale of US newspaper editor and sometime Congressman Horace Greeley, whose 1848 investigation into congressional travel expenses proved an excellent example of both the power and potential pitfalls of quantitative journalism.
Published in Weekly Filet #200
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