{
  "id": "1998-september-also-see-lafleurs-article-on-mapping",
  "slug": "1998-september-also-see-lafleurs-article-on-mapping",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1998-september-also-see-lafleurs-article-on-mapping.html",
  "year": 1998,
  "month": "September",
  "monthNum": 9,
  "headline": "ALSO SEE LAFLEUR'S ARTICLE ON MAPPING",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "Jennifer LaFleur",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE",
  "summary": "The article references LaFleur's mapping analysis and recommends statistical tools like the Index of Diversity and Percentiles for journalists, along with suggested reading on data literacy and statistical analysis.",
  "keywords": [
    "statistics",
    "analysis",
    "journalism"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "ALSO SEE LAFLEUR'S ARTICLE ON MAPPING THAT STARTS ON PAGE ONE. OTHER ANALYSIS TOOLS DISCUSSED IN LAFLEUR'S HANDOUT (#782 IN IRE's RESOURCE CENTER) INCLUDE THE INDEX OF DIVERSITY, PUNXUTAWNEY PHIL'S WEATHER INDEX, AND PERCENTILES.\n\nSHE ALSO SUGGESTS FURTHER \"LIGHT\" READING:\n\n\"NEWS AND NUMBERS,\" BY VICTOR COHN\n\"HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS,\" BY DARRELL HUFF\n\"INNUMERACY: MATHEMATICAL ILLITERACY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES,\" BY JOHN ALLEN PAULOS\n\"A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER,\" BY JOHN ALLEN PAULOS\n\"THE JOURNALIST AND THE GINI COEFFIENCT: A STATISTICAL APPROACH,\" BY J.J. THOMPSON",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1998-september-also-see-lafleurs-article-on-mapping.html",
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