The Big Truth

College is all numbers. When you're young you have dreams of going to these big fancy colleges or ones close to home that you've been born rooting for; but when the time comes your focus is numbers. Most will go where they can afford.
The big truth about most colleges is that when you graduate and get on your feet you'll be knocked back down waist deep in debt. Money is an important factor when choosing a college. Looking at more elite colleges can be better than focusing on cheaper ones. This is because the elite schools have more money to give out, in the form of financial aid and scholarships. A problem with cheaper colleges is graduation rate. You may have the determination to do great, and the college you choose may be great for helping you reach your goals. What about the people around you? Are they determined to succeed or are they just there?

I don't think drones are necessary  I think the government is just trying to find more ways into our lives. I don't believe it is as much for our safety as it is for them to keep an eye on us. I believe that it will be helpful in some ways, for catching speeders, and drug dealers; but truly I believe if we dig deeper a more significant reason for drones can be found.

The principles of journalism say that a reporter should be honest. Obviously, not all refer back to the principles but they are an important factor in big data. People like a good story but what matters in the truth.

Big Data

Collecting big data can show us what our habits are.

Myself: 

Coffee consumption during exam week

Times of the day I'm on twitter most

How many people I've met through social media rather than in person

Lager data set on teenagers. A bigger idea could be how many people meet and talk to people over social media rather than on the streets and in person. 

Lager data set on medical researchers. A bigger idea could be how quickly diseases are spreading and where a cure can be found.

Data on myself and things like my coffee consumption during exams and how often I'm on twitter can help me be informed on myself. 

Data on teenagers can be used to look for ways to reconnect people. We can look at social interaction over the internet look where they're at during the interaction to find places where people are most comfortable. A problem we face today is little face to face interaction. We sit behind a computer screen and easily talk to someone new; when it comes to seeing someone who interests you in person people tend to have a harder time interacting. How can we come back to face to face interaction without this fear of interaction? 

Data on medical researchers can be used to help show us advances in cures and innovations in medical technologies. If we can see the research that is going on we can be informed. We can see upcoming diseases; how quickly they're spreading all over the world. We can use information like this to prepare. \

Big data can be used to track changes throughout the years.
On census.org there is visual data that can be used to see languages spoken in the U.S. and how those languages have prospered or disappeared throughout the years.

Social media shouldn't be able to be bought. There's a lot of information in it, making it an invasion of privacy.

Concealing big data is just as bad as using it. It's unethical to keep something that's harmful away from us.

I think the Frost/Nixon movie is the wrong idea of journalism. This type of using cinematic journalism is wrong. It uses big data but changes it, for dramatic effect. 

Happening Now

In the Wall Street Journal, stories under Korean Real Time could be an example of something to go under the category of quadrant I. The stories contain hard, real time data. In my opinion, they give the truth and do not attempt to persuade the reader into thinking the writers' way. The sports story on March Madness is considered more of a quadrant III story. It's not of extreme importance and it has more of a persuading effect on the readers. I believe that many papers, including Maplight, and Newsworks, follow the same stories. The stories may not be identical but they all have the same idea. Some stories more important than others but the ones that belong on the first page should be stories that belong in quadrant I because those are the real time stories, the ones that matter are not always the most interesting but they are the ones that need to have the attention.

Summly and Circa
Summly seems to have more news in the app; though it's not as simple and colorful as Circa. Circa is appealing to the eye, which will pull people in.
Popurls and Meltwater
Popurls, although not very appealing, it's jam packed of information. Meltwater is appealing and simple but you only get a free trial; it's said that you get what you pay for though. How would you feel if where you go to get news was sued though? Meltwater lost to AP claiming they are not using fair use of their information which they find. In simplest words they're stealing stories.

Global Inequality Story

Summly and Circa would not cover this story because it's a more complex story. This is not something that you would see in a simple news app on your phone. 

It would be more likely that Popurls would cover the story but it would not look as appealing and have a map it would show the facts and get down to the truth without distracting maps and pictures. Meltwater on the other hand, would be more likely to cover the story almost exactly how it is.

Posthumous Pulitzer

Important

Syria Civil War

Quadrant I story

Santorum: GOP Will Never Embrace Gay Marriage

Real story Quadrant 1