“The craft of storywriting takes a simple set of facts - such as location, crime, value, victim and date for a robbery story - and massages them into a large blob of information. “It’s a tragedy that beautiful, clean data is compressed into a blob, orientated towards humans. The problem is that it is not orientated towards computers and that’s what we should be doing.”
—Future of Journalism: Adrian Holovaty’s vision for data-friendly journalists