Project Kipling Real-Time Data Journalism Tools

Journalists today work in a world dominated by two trends:

1. People break and discuss the news in real time via many-to-many communications platforms such as Twitter, and

2. Complex issues – both locally and globally – in politics, economics and the environment give rise to large sets of data and a demand for the stories those datasets have to tell.

To address these trends, Project Kipling provides real-time Twitter data collection and management, and an extensive suite of proven analytical tools for

• Natural language processing,
• Text mining,
• Social network analysis,
• Geospatial analysis,
• Machine learning,
• Data mining,
• Predictive analytics and modeling,
• Economic and financial analysis, and
• Visualization, exploratory data analysis and data presentation.

Today’s journalists not only need to be digital media creators and storytellers, they also need to be on top of breaking news on Twitter and they need to be data scientists. They need to collect, manage, analyze and present data of many types.

The goals of Project Kipling are

1. To place tools for 21st century real-time data journalism in the hands of students and freelance writers, as early as high school and community college, and

2. Teach them how to use the tools to hold public servants and businesses accountable.

Project Kipling is a collection of software comprising a 100 percent open source digital data journalism workstation. In addition to the advanced tools described above, a Project Kipling workstation includes

• A complete office / productivity suite,
• Browsers, email, address book and calendaring,
• Voice and instant messaging communications, and
• Digital media creation / editing software.

Project Kipling will be an intelligence amplifier for 21st century digital data journalists.

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