big data, live data, user data: bbc future

@PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University and City University London

BBC Future Day, September 2014

#sousveillance !#bbcfuture

!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc

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1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

VS.

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FIGHT!

Daniel Ellsberg: $20,000.00 Bradley Manning: $0,000.18

Daniel Ellsberg + friends and family: over 1 year Bradley Manning: 5 minutes

Daniel Ellsberg + friends and family: over 1 year Bradley Manning: 5 minutes (would have taken Ellsberg 18 years to copy)

http://helpmeinvestigate.com/blog/the-leak-movement-this-machine-kills-secrets/

“More than 160 times larger than the leak of U.S. State Department documents by Wikileaks in 2010.”

http://helpmeinvestigate.com/blog/the-leak-movement-this-machine-kills-secrets/

#OffshoreLeaks

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/evolution-in-the-workflow-how-wgsn-brought-together-two-global-fashion-forecasters

“No journalist was able to do the story because each month’s data was 2GB and you can’t open that in Excel.”

Nicola Hughes, prescriptions story, The Times http://billyehrenberg.tumblr.com/post/85211771230/what-skills-do-you-need-to-survive-in-the-future-of

No story too big?

“When reading a study, you can only account for multiple comparisons when you know about all the comparisons made by the investigators.”

http://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/6/statistics/index.htm?beware_of_multiple_comparisons.htm

Multiple comparisons problem

1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

“Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police department’s website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago.”

Adrian Holovaty

http://2014.okfestival.org/okfestival-2014-stories-thought-experiments-in-sensor-journalism-notes-from-a-sensor-journalism-workshop-at-okfest14/ http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/03/sensor-journalism-data-journalism.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline

1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

“The best thing to serve each user, based on all the information we know about them … editors [can] override those choices.” !

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3036091/the-next-big-thing-in-responsive-design

LA Times’s responsive design

http://www.autonewscast.com/2008/10/25/nissan-to-pilot-intelligent-transport-system-model/

Telematics + the ‘fifth screen’

“Authorities were blocking photographers [&] news helicopters. Public Lab relied on weather balloons and kites with digital cameras.”

http://towcenter.org/sensors-and-journalism-public-lab-homebrew-hardware/

Public Lab + sensors

http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/06/the-cicadas-are-here-4-lessons-from-wnycs-cicada-tracker-project/

WNYC: Audience involvement

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-detection-system-documents-39000-shooting-incidents-in-the-district/2013/11/02/055f8e9c-2ab1-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Washpo: ShotSpotter

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1. Big data: more of it in all industries, but needs holding to account too. 2. Live data: what systems to alert, report, utilise? 3. User data: connect, engage, mobilise, sousveillance?

Thank you.

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@PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University and City University London

BBC Future Day, September 2014