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How news organizations are using data to tell stories
Peter VerweijD3-Media
Tbilisi November 2013
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
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
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
Traffic accidents From Database: 2000 accidents Top ten Dangerous junctions Map is the story
Simple spreadsheet Geo coding and mapping Story telling Convergence
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
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
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
Members of the ParliamentNRC representation of the members by age, gender, education, address/city
Scraping dataSimple graphics
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
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
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
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
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.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
•E-mail: [email protected]•Twitter: peter_verweij•Blog: http://d3-media.blogspot.nl/