Buzzfeed uses R for Data Journalism by David Smith.
From the post:
Buzzfeed isn't just listicles and cat videos these days. Science journalist Peter Aldhous recently joined Buzzfeed's editorial team, after stints at Nature, Science and New Scientist magazines. He brings with him his data journalism expertise and R programming skills to tell compelling stories with data on the site. His stories, like this one on the rates of terrorism incidents in the USA, often include animated maps or interactive charts created with R.
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Data journalists and would be data journalists should be following the use of R and Python at Buzzfeed.
You don’t have to read Buzzfeed (I have difficulty with its concept of “news”), as David points out a way to follow all the Buzzfeed projects that make it to GitHub.
See David’s post for other great links.
Enjoy!