Census and the CDC) and then create their own interactive visualizations, which can then be embedded in their stories. The Common Knowledge Project, meanwhile, allows journalists to explore a variety of public datasets (from Data Commons, which collects data sets from organizations like the U.S. Many analytics sites exist in order to gather further interactive data about your websites and allow you to perform detailed data analysis. But she argued in that most cases, Google's security practices should be sufficient.Īs part of Pinpoint, Google is also partnering with The Center for Public Integrity, Document Cloud, Stanford University’s Big Local News program and The Washington Post to create shared document collections. She acknowledged that journalists sometimes have access to documents that are "extremely sensitive" and they won't even upload them to their own internal networks. Kennedy, Jr."Īsked whether users should feel comfortable uploading sensitive documents to the service, Chan said, "Google, we believe, has best-in class privacy and security practices, and Pinpoint is absolutely no exception." And because it uses Google's Knowledge Graph technology, Pinpoint can also find group related terms, or distinguish between two similar-looking ones, such as "John F. Chan noted that this should be less tedious than simply hitting CTRL-F over and over again for different terms. Pinpoint is designed to make the process simpler by identifying the people, organizations and locations that are mentioned most frequently, and to make it easy to jump to each of those references. Chan previously served as an editor and digital executive at publications like Politico and The Washington Post, and she recalled moments when reporters would get access to a large trove public records - those documents could be crucial, but it was also a huge chore to go through them. Chan, Google's news ecosystems lead, demonstrated Pinpoint for me yesterday. But in addition to bringing everything together into a new suite of products, Google also announced two new tools: Pinpoint and The Common Knowledge Project. Most of the products included in Journalist Studio, such as Google Trends and the Fact Check Explorer, were already available elsewhere. Google today unveiled Journalist Studio, a set of online tools for journalists.
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