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AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool

www.ap.org on 03/09/2013

Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
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