data journalism - introduction

DATA JOURNALISM

Dr. Bahareh Heravi Bahareh.Heravi@insight-centre.org

Week 1Introduction

Who  am  I?    

Research  Group  Leader  &  Research  Fellow    Insight  News  Lab  Insight  Centre  for  Data  AnalyBcs,  NUIG    Adjunct  Lecturer  &  Programme  Board  Member  of  Journalism  Studies    NaBonal  University  of    Ireland,  Galway    Former  Lead  Data  ScienBst  at  The  Irish  Times  Founder  of  Irish  Times  Data    Founder  of  Hacks/Hackers  Dublin  

Outline  of  today  

What  is  Data  Journalism?  Why  is  it  important?  Some  examples  Data  Journalism  Process    What  we  will  learn  Assessment      

 What  is  Data  Journalism?  

�Telling stories with data – data as a

source �

DATA    

data

information

wisdom

knowledge

DISCRETE  ELEMENTS:  FACTS,  SYMBOLS,  SIGNALS    of  no  use  unBl  in  a  usable  format    

UNDERSTANDING  RELATIONS    ‘who’,  ‘what’,  ‘when’,  ‘where’  

UNDERSTANDING  PATTERNS  ‘how’  

UNDERSTANDING  PRINCIPALS  ‘why’  

G  Bellinger,  D  Castro,  A  Mills,  Data,  informaBon,  knowledge,  and  wisdom,  2004  

 DATA  is  o3en  ugly  

Role of Data Journalists: ��

Beautification �

Ugly  data  -­‐>  beauBful  informaBon  &  knowledge  

&  Storytelling  

Data  Journalism  as  it  is  known  now  is  just  over  5  years  old.    BUT    It  has  its  roots  in  Computer  Assisted  reporBng  (CAR),  which  goes  back  to  1960s.        

   Data  Journalism  is  the  future.    

Sir  Tim  Berners-­‐Lee  Founder  of  the  World  Wide  Web  

“Data  Journalism  is  the  future.    

Journalists  need  to  be  data-­‐savvy.  It  used  to  be  that  you  

would  get  stories  by  chadng  to  people  in  bars,  and  it  sBll  

might  be  that  you’ll  do  it  that  way  some  Bmes.  But  now  it’s  

also  going  to  be  about  poring  over  data  and  equipping  

yourself  with  the  tools  to  analyze  it  and  picking  out  what’s  

interesBng.  And  keeping  it  in  perspecBve,  helping  people  out  

by  really  seeing  where  it  all  fits  together,  and  what’s  going  on  

in  the  country”,  and  in  the  world.      

Sir  Tim  Berners-­‐Lee  Data  Journalism  Handbook  

 Data  Journalism  Process?  

The  inverted  pyramid  of  data  journalism  

By Paul Bradshaw

The  inverted  pyramid  of  data  journalism  

By Paul Bradshaw

Examples  of  Data  Journalism  projects  in  newsrooms  

Asylum  rates  in  Europe  

Is  your  name  going  out  of  fashion?  

More  road  deaths  in  counBes  with  low  penalty  points  

Source:  Guardian  Data  

Guardian  Data  

SOME  TOOLS  

Fusion    Tables  

Anybody can do it!

How?

We will learn during this semester....

hip://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/programmes/data-­‐journalism-­‐awards/  

hip://community.globaleditorsnetwork.org/projects_by_event/890  

Data  Journalist  

 QuesFons?  

@Bahareh360  Bahareh.Heravi@insight-­‐centre.org