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I think data journalism is successful when you don’t need the adjective.

Amanda Cox

You can lie with numbers, so it's our job to tell the truth with numbers.

Jaimi Dowdell

It was a story we could see in data. But anchoring it with a real example of a family ruined financially, despite their costly medical insurance, made the numbers resonate with readers.

John Tozzi

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Our evening interviews in parking garages and homes, relentless phone calls, and late nights were not designed to get a president impeached. Our approach was empirical.

Bob Woodward

Precision journalism has always been more transparent than traditional journalism.

Shawn McIntosh

The indispensable skill for a data journalist is the ability to extract a single salient point from a complex dataset, and communicate it in an accessible way that doesn’t require the reader to wade through mounds of data.

Joel Eastwood

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You choose journalism to tell untold stories, give power to the powerless and hold authority figures accountable.

Andrea Salcedo

Without individuals we see only numbers... With individual stories, the statistics become people – but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Passage in American Gods by Neil Gaiman

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

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Every corpse, every weeping relative, and every sleep-deprived detective was linked to a data point in my hard drive, as if – in traversing the county's four thousand square miles – I was guiding my Escort across a vast Excel file... I will never look at statistics quite the same way again.

Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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Whoever declared that there are lies, damn lies and statistics could just as easily have granted law enforcement data a category unto itself.

David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

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You will never get an absolute answer, but you can get a relative answer that is pretty good.

Philip Meyer, The New Precision Journalism

The data don't tell us whether discrimination exists, but they do tell us whether we ought to ask some more questions

Catherine Lhamon, U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights

I had spent weeks at work, studying, correlating statistics, going through reports, none of which actually help to reveal the truth of what it is like to be discriminated against. They cancel truth almost more than they reveal it. I decided to throw them away and simply publish what happened to me.

John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

I have a great subject (statistics) to write upon, but feel keenly my literary incapacity to make it easily intelligible without sacrificing accuracy and thoroughness.

Sir Francis Galton

Tell me what is, not what isn't.

Betsy Streisand

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