Hello, This article by the new your times does an extensive analysis of all lies told by Donald Trump. The analysis is very interesting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html However, at the same time, fact-checking of lies is becoming increasingly dicy, with pre-conceived notions influencing journalism and lying (alt-truth) becoming commonplace. https://www.vox.com/2019/1/9/18175186/trump-oval-office-speech-fact-check-failures
Another favorite (albeit slightly old) example is the New York Times coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/middleeast/in-gaza-a-pattern-of-conflict.html It's a great example of how graphs can be used to mislead people and paint a favorable picture, as this article analyses it https://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/lesson-mislead-numbers/ On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 12:16:15 AM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Hi, > > Sharing a recent article from Vivek Kaul, an economist who IMHO is amazing > at bringing data together to make his case. > > > https://www.equitymaster.com/diary/detail.asp?date=03/26/2018&story=3&title=Corporates-Responsible-for-More-Than-80-of-Bad-Loans-of-Public-Sector-Banks > > One of his recurring sources for data: Centre for Monitoring Indian > Economy, https://www.cmie.com . But what's striking is that he's quick at > deriving crucial data points from several starred / unstarred questions > raised in Parliament which complement the official figures and form crucial > pieces of the puzzle. Also, there's granularity coming from delving deeper > into the data and separating factors out rather than treating things like a > black box. For example, the data on loans waivers to corporates vs loan > waivers to farmers show a clear divergence and tell us about the need to > not conflate the two. > > I don't think he gets much love from civil society, as his inferences and > recommendations veer more towards classical Libertarianism than socialism, > particularly regarding role of government in economy, etc. Yet I find their > discussions bringing up the same problems and then being completely void of > the angles he's brought up, because it's a totally different perspective. > > Anyways, Is anyone working on data gathering or visualizations for the bad > loans issue? > > Do share if you know journalists doing more data-driven work. > > PS: Yes, I am replying on a very old thread. Wanted to continue the thread > so people searching for these keywords can find them together. > > On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 8:58:30 AM UTC+5:30, sandeep wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I recently published some work that went viral and thought everyone with >> interest in analytics(and of course movies and TV or public interest), >> would benefit from. Check out links below or my FB page >> http://www.facebook.com/DataJournalismAndMore for below and more in >> future >> >> Satyamev Jayate Review <http://goo.gl/WlJX8> >> Bollywood Box Office Unplugged: First Day First Week >> <http://goo.gl/gHhRP> >> Bolly wood Box Office Unplugged - Analysis of 2012 <http://goo.gl/HE6lD> >> Bollywood Box Office Unplugged-3 Reviewers reviewed <http://goo.gl/DJhGI> >> >> Regards, >> Sandeep >> Twitter @IQnEQ >> FB http://www.facebook.com/DataJournalismAndMore >> > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
