American Media RundownA data analysis and visualization project
Purpose
Explore the attitudes of a diverse set of American media outlets to provide a contextualized map of the opinions and slants people are subject to when they read their news.
Steps
Generate list of media outlets
15 total
varied by location, partisanship, target age-range, popularity, time of existence etc.
might be cool to select one or a few major outlets from abroad (like the Guardian)
Identify 10 major stories from the past year
limit of 5 stories that include Trump or the election
other ideas: Brexit, refugee crisis, terror attacks
Source stories for every media outlet
150 total
Explore the data!
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I'd like to leave the rest of this open until we complete steps 1 - 4. But, we should definitely think of some hypothesis / things-we-should-be-looking-for beforehand.
American Media Rundown A data analysis and visualization project
Purpose
Explore the attitudes of a diverse set of American media outlets to provide a contextualized map of the opinions and slants people are subject to when they read their news.
Steps
Generate list of media outlets
Identify 10 major stories from the past year
Source stories for every media outlet
Explore the data!
...
I'd like to leave the rest of this open until we complete steps 1 - 4. But, we should definitely think of some hypothesis / things-we-should-be-looking-for beforehand.