To get an idea of the time involved, it took two reporters about three weeks to produce the second crime package. It took me about 10 days, on and off, to complete a su bsequent analysis of sexual assaults. That included creating databases, sometimes by entering the data myself, analyzing the data, doing interviews, writing the stories and working closely with a graphic artist on presenting key findings graphically. But usually it wasn't the computer analysis that took so long. It was the interviewing, camping out in neighborhoods and doing traditional research.
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See more ideas below. I've provided summaries of our urban affairs stories that relied on computer-assisted reporting techniques. Besides giving you story ideas, they're meant to give you clues about the amount and type of analysis involved. Summary Tape File 3A., U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Data User Services Division. The State Journal's first citywide analysis of crime in 1994 was based on a strong combination of computer-assisted reporting techniques and more traditional methods, including extensive interviewing of residents in the city's most violent neighborhood.