Carolina Data Desk

09/24/2018

There will be many complex ways to measure Hurricane Florence's uneven impact on North Carolina. A map by UNC student Charlotte Ririe shows "the Bojangles effect" as one simple way. http://www.carolinadatadesk.org/north-carolinas-bojangles-recovery-after-hurricane-florence/

05/30/2018

Registration for this free data journalism training ends tomorrow! Join Reveal's lead data journalist Emmanuel Martinez at Wake Forest University on June 18-19 to learn more about using data in your reporting.

Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will be coming to North Carolina June 18-19 to train journalists and students in the art of data reporting. Emmanuel Martinez, data reporter for Reveal/CIR, will lead the training. Martinez is the lead data journalist in Reveal's ongoing coverage of mode...

01/24/2018

A new report from Melody Kramer is guiding the next steps in our mission to help bring data home to your news organization. Read her report and let us know: how much does it resonate with your experience with data in your news organization?

The following is a condensed version of a report by Melody Kramer that was written for the Carolina Data Desk, which is part of the UNC School of Media and Journalism's Reese News Lab, and funded by the Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media. Names and organizations have been made ano

07/27/2017

Big plans ahead for the future of Carolina Data Desk, and lucky us to have Melody Kramer to help shape them.

The UNC School of Media and Journalism and Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media welcome Melody Kramer to theCarolina Data Desk team. She is the first Reese News Lab Fellow helping local media outlets embrace and utilize data to create sustainable business models. Kramer currently…

11/11/2016

We made some bold predictions about the legislative elections in North Carolina. We were mostly right. http://carolinadatadesk.org/evaluating-our-legislative-predictions/

11/04/2016

Follow us on Twitter! We'll be posting updates with what we're working on, reading and listening to! https://twitter.com/UNCDataDesk

The latest Tweets and replies from Carolina Data Desk (). Giving journalists the tools to tell data-driven stories in North Carolina. Contact us for assistance with acquiring, cleaning, analyzing or presenting data. Chapel Hill, NC

11/04/2016

Data journalist Langston Taylor explains how The Charlotte Observer investigated the state lottery by finding inconsistencies in the data.

http://carolinadatadesk.org/how-a-regional-paper-investigated-the-state-lottery-and-smaller-organizations-can-follow-suit/

The Charlotte Observer’s Gavin Off explains how they investigated suspiciously successful lottery players and how to replicate the project on a smaller scale.

11/04/2016

Find out about our mission in a post from one of our data journalists, Lindsay Carbonell

http://carolinadatadesk.org/dear-n-c-news-media-organizations/

Here at Carolina Data Desk, we are committed to helping you, the news media organization, use data in the best way possible.