Final Flashcards
What is metadata?
Data about the data
When looking at a song metadata is name, artist, album
What does SEO stand for and why is it important?
Search Engine Optimization
Makes content online more easily accessible. What people search for is more important than what bots search for.
Why is it important to include links in stories?
Leads reader to other stories to help understand concept. Allows a user to choose to go deeper if they would like
What is HTML?
Hyper Text Markup Language
What are the four main codes for HTML?
<p> Paragraph describes the page includes scripts, internal CSS, etc. names a web page and helps w/ SEO Visible page content</p>
What does CSS stand for?
Cascading Style Sheets
What is CSS?
Coding to design website and add style to it
What does an omni-directional mic capture?
Picks up sound from all directions
What does an cardoid mic capture?
Picks up sound primarily in one direction
What’d does an hyper-cardioid mic caputre?
Most directional mic, long cylinder, sometimes called shotgun mic
What is a sample rate?
Number of times in 1 second that it samples sound.
What is bit depth?
How much info the recorder collects with each sample
What is an interview video?
Standard video, subject framed as if they are having discussion with interviewer.
What is an environmental video?
Capture and communicate sights and sounds of particular place (ambient sound)
Where is key light placed and what does it do?
Placed high and to the side of the camera. Creates shadows that model the face
Where is fill light placed and what does it do?
Placed on opposite side of subject to lighten the shadowed side of face
Where is background light placed and what does it do?
Placed behind the subject to separate them from the background
What do hard lights do?
Create harsh, sharp edge shadows
What do soft lights do?
Light is more diffused and evenly spread out
What are the four ways journalists acquire data?
Observations
Importing files from the web
Submissions from site visitors
Scraping the unstructured text of a doc/web page
What are rational databases
Groups of spreadsheets linked together by specific relationships between a cell on one sheets and a cell on another
What is database normalization
Process of reorganizing data to that there is no redundancy
What is C.R.U.D
Create, Read, Update, Delete
Six steps of Data Science
Problem definition • State the problem Data collection • State sources of data Data storage • Leaning and curation; state where you were store data Data Analysis • State formulas/manipulations Data Representation • State type of visualization Problem Resolution • Interpret the ingot, provide solution to problem
What are the four different types of blogs?
Personal, Opinion, Beat, Breaking News
What makes a good blog
- There is a well defined, narrow topic
- Provides brief incremental updates
- They are well reported
- The author is engaged with the audience
What is pro-am journalism
Facilitate amateur reporting & model a basic skill set
Community journalism
Small, local papers
Hyperlocal journalism
Community journalism online
Civic journalism
News organizations as a forum for discussing issues
Disturbed reporting
Single reporting effort among many
Crowd sourcing
Journalists ask audience to report back info about a story that is happening in a lot of places all at once
