Tuesday, September 27

Agenda

Florida's missing speeding cops
How the Sun-Sentinel busted speeding cops using databases and grade-school arithmetic
FOIAing for FBI Files
Resources and articles about how to request files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation via FOIA.
Random slides
These will be incorporated into more readable pieces. If you have questions where I got the data just ask and I can send you along.

Assignments

Hello, let's watch some videos

Is the following a public affairs story? Is it a data story?

How about this?

More to come

Besides the two agenda items listed above, I'll be talking broadly about the goal and expectations of the course, particularly what can be found on the Assignments and Syllabus pages, as well as the two assignments due on Thursday:

I'll have more formal notes up later this week. Sorry for the delay.