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How news organizations are using data to tell stories
Peter VerweijD3-Media
Tbilisi November 2013
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Is data journalism really the new kid on the block?
1854 London Dr Snow Cholera map1967 Detroit Riots Ph Meyer using IBM mainframe for survey
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Data Journalism is at least 50 years old
• But known under different names• Precision Journalism(Meyer)• Analytical Journalism (Johnson)• Computer Assisted Research and Reporting(IRE/Nicar)• Data Journalism
• Common denominator: use the tools of science to improve quality of reporting
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Riots in The UK 2011 by The GuardianC:\Users\peter\Desktop\hdc\Data-journalists are the new punks_ Simon Rogers at TEDxPantheonSorbonne.mp4
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2011/aug/16/riots-poverty-map
Data speaking truth to power: refuting claim PM Cameron about povertyFree softwareEasy to use
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Traffic accidents From Database: 2000 accidents Top ten Dangerous junctions Map is the story
Simple spreadsheet Geo coding and mapping Story telling Convergence
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Final Scores Elementary schoolsOnline version by RTL: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/special/publicatie-cito-scores-kijk-hoe-jouw-school-scoort
Hardcopy by NRC: different angle
Based on excelMapping and simple grapicsScraping data from RTLAdding other data
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Crime mappingHere is what the LA Times is doinghttp://maps.latimes.com/crime/
Typical American, because of public recordsNot real story telling or reporting just info
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Sovereign RatingsGuardian published the data:http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/apr/30/credit-ratings-country-fitch-moodys-standard?INTCMP=SRCH
Visualization of the data with TableauWorksheet could published embedded
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Members of the ParliamentNRC representation of the members by age, gender, education, address/city
Scraping dataSimple graphics
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Sanitation at elementary schools and drop out in Kibera Nairobi Kenyahttp://www.icfj.org/news/data-%E2%80%9Cboot-camp%E2%80%9D-helps-kenyan-reporter-expose-school-sanitation-woes
Simple data collectionTurning into multi media story telling
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Social network AnalysisStructuring the public debates:Twitter network 500 SA journalists
http://memeburn.com/2012/07/how-to-make-your-journalistic-twitter-network-rock-a-case-study/
More advancedSteep learning curveNew angle to decision making and power distribution
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Conclusions 1Journalism is not only text but also numbers;Attention to numeracy; how to work with numbers; A little statistics is basic knowledge, for example:Robert Niles; doing spreadsheets without any idea about statistics does not work.http://www.robertniles.com/stats/
Knowledge about software: excel, scraping, mapping ,visualizing , embedded linksBut software change fast: learn yourself new software
Data Journalism is team work
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Conclusions 2
High end: R project or SPSS for detailed statistics; Hire a specialist from the university for advanced statisticsFor difficult scraping and hacking a database: hire a coder from your IT department that is hosting the on line or employ him/her in the newsroom
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How to get started?- start with interesting colleagues in data journalism- start with training the basic skills- start small- come up with a feasible story idea and available data- create a budget- create a team division of labor- have back up in case you get stuck- involve the editor and management- report step by step and decide whether to continue or not- write a plan based on a story idea: what is your news/expected outcome; think about how to publish; convergence hard copy and online.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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