Data Journalism - Introduction
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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
