Podcast: Data Journalism

The immense amounts of data collected by local, state and federal government agencies can be an incredibly valuable trove for enterprising journalists. It can also be a pointless slog. Texas Tribune reporter Matt Stiles and Duke University computational journalism professor Sarah Cohen explain how they find good stories in a sea of government data. (5m 46 sec).

For a transcript, see www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/05/13/02