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October 29, 2013 12:27 am GMT
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Vocativ Is Like VICE, With a Lot More Data
What does a story about a rooftop party in war-torn Syria have to do with villagers in Nepal selling their kidneys for cheap? For Vocativ, the answer is data.
Vocativ, a news organization that launched out of beta on Monday, uses proprietary technology to analyze open data from social networks, government records and other databases in order to find patterns and connections — or what the startup is referring to as "low signals" — that others might miss amid all the information posted online. At the same time, Vocativ employs a team of about 30 editors, writers and producers from publications like the New York Times, CNN and Reuters, who can take that data and use it as the basis for stories Read more...
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