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Open data CSVs for journalists: quick exploration before stories ship
Government portals and election data: sanity checks, joins on FIPS codes, and reproducible excerpts.
发布于 2025年3月21日 · Table
Newsrooms download CSVs from city open-data sites daily. Fast sorting and filtering catch null districts, duplicate precinct IDs, and impossible totals before publication.
Practice
- Keep immutable raw downloads; work on copies.
- Log the portal URL and retrieval timestamp in your methodology.