Is red meat bad for your health? What's a triple-blind clinical trial? Are the Finnish really that great at mathematics? What's so significant about statistical significance? During the first half ...
Stijn Debrouwere
Stijn Debrouwere helps news organizations make sense of their analytics, most recently at Fusion. Before, he built tools for measuring the impact of journalism at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and in 2013 was part of The Guardian's data science team in London as a Knight-Mozilla fellow. He's worked in local media and started his career in Belgium as co-founder of investigative news startup apache.be. He blogs at debrouwere.org.
From GDP to teacher evaluations to IQ to pageviews, every aspect of our lives is measured and, more often than not, mis-measured. Learn about the problems with university rankings, how we measure ec...
If all of our analytics went up in smoke, would we truly, genuinely miss them? Stijn will talk about really taking the time to understand our audience and ourselves, rather than jumping to conclusi...
For a long time, journalists have had no real interest in finding out what impacts their stories are having: "Get the story out now. And tomorrow is a new news day" seems to have been the motto. We ...