This is a guest post that also appeared on Oct. 15 on ProPublica’s blog at http://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-use-mechanical-turk-to-do-data-driven-reporting-and-how-you-can-too by Amanda Michel ProPublica
Of all of journalism’s recent evolutions, data-driven reporting is one of the most celebrated. But as much as we should toast data’s