Why data and stories need each other

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Walter Frick interviews Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post on why neither data nor narrative is sufficient for producing great journalism: "I can get a lot from one great visual chart … and I can get a lot out of a story about someone like me doing something that is interesting to me. But I think that when you bring them all together what you get is this experience where people have a process of discovery for themselves which I think is important for learning."

May 19, 2014

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