from attention to trust: data-driven journalism and the urban future

picnic 2011 From Attention to Trust:How data-driven journalism can help us in the urban future

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old story: How we see the worldnew story: What data can tell us1000 stories: Perspectives

old story

You are here

your circle of trust

You are here

To survive, we rely on:our senses

our experienceadvise from family and friends

conventional wisdom

For the future, this is not enough

Business?Drive for continually growing profits

data analyticsbusiness intelligence

Corporations

Brands

Government

Mortgages

Marketing

ConsumerCredit

Checks

Statistics

Taxes

Corporations

Brands

Government

Mortgages

Marketing

ConsumerCredit

Checks

Statistics

Taxes

Corporations

Brands

Internet

Social Media

Disparity of access to understandable data enables

„modern cheating“(small and big)

„Small“ examples:

Ending a mobile phone subscriptionIdentity theft/phishing

Compare costs of products/servicesUnderstanding full cost of a loan

Big examples:Subprime crisis

Debt crisisPrivacy

recent innovation:tracking everyone in

real-time

Who owns your data?

Photo: Mirko Lorenz, 2011 (Tekniska museet, Stockholm)

Who owns your data?

Photo: Mirko Lorenz, 2011 (Tekniska museet, Stockholm)

Why is it collected?Where is it stored?

Why is it kept?How is it used?

Source: Apple

new story

DEF:DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM= WORKFLOW

We need a process to transform data into story

Source: Worldbank

BETTER FILTERS

Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

...show the context

Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

...show the context

Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

OPEN DATA

WHY A NEW STORY?

FS Michaels: Monoculture. How One Story isChanging Everything, 2011

the GNP measures everything, except that which makes life worthwhile

Robert F. Kennedy (1968)

Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas,

March 18, 1968Link

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Thanks everyone for your valiant efforts so far.

You're amply justifying our hope that many hands can make light work of the thousands ofdocuments released by Parliament in relation to MPs’ expenses. We, and others - perhapsyou? - are still using these tools to review each document, decide whether it containsinteresting information, and extract the key facts.

Some pages will be covering letters, or claim forms for office stationery. But somewhere inhere is the receipt for a duck island. And who knows what else may turn up. If you findsomething which you think needs further attention, simply hit the button marked “investigatethis!” and we’ll take a closer look.

How to get involved:

Step 1: Find a documentStep 2: Decide what kind of thing it is and whether it’s interestingStep 3: Copy out any individual entriesStep 4: Make any specific observations about why a claim deserves further scrutiny

Examples of things to look out for: food bills, repeated claims for less than £250 (the limit forclaims not backed up by a receipt), and rejected claims.

All the MPs' records are on there now - so let us know what you find.

DATA: what we've learned from your work so far - updated

Some of the best individual discoveries.

More on MPs' expenses | Full list of Telegraph revelations

Email us at: mpsexpenses@guardian.co.uk

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Labour 351 MPs

Conservative 194 MPs

Liberal Democrat 63 MPs

DUP 9 MPs

Scottish National Party 7 MPs

Independent 6 MPs

Sinn Fein 5 MPs

Deputy Speaker 3 MPs

Plaid Cymru 3 MPs

Social Democratic and Labour Party 3 MPs

Independent Labour 1 MP

Respect 1 MP

UUP 1 MP

Speaker 1 MP

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Join us in digging through the documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, ordocuments that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP'sexpenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing. (Update, Fri pm: we now have avirtually complete set of expenses documents so you should be able to find your MP's)Already created an account? Log in here.

CROWDSOURCING

Source: Guardian

NEW MODELS TO FINANCE THIS

Q: WHAT ARE THE DATA TOOLS FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL THINK ARE INDISPENSABLE?

VISUALISING WHAT AFFECTS US

CITY

COUNTRY

WORLD

PEOPLE

GROUP

OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

VISUALISING WHAT AFFECTS US

CITY

COUNTRY

WORLD

PEOPLE

GROUP

MEDIA

OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

Journalists, where do you add value?

Quote Jeff Jarvis

SWITCH IN MEDIA MODELS:FROM ATTENTION TO TRUST

VISUALIZING WHAT IS NOT SENSEABLE

_Source: Visual.ly, 2011

VISUALIZING WHAT IS NOT SENSEABLE

_Source: Visual.ly, 2011

VISUALIZING WHAT IS NOT SENSEABLE

_Source: Visual.ly, 2011

Team Ingest Filter Publish DistributeProduce Measure

TextCHANGING JOURNALISM WORKFLOWS: DATA TO STORY

Vision Cloud Media Use Case

Rethinking media workflows

Trustable services

Trustable services

Trustable servicesTransparent

OpenIndividual

No hidden agenda

TO GET THERE:TOOLSTRAININGEXAMPLES

1000stories

THEMOVIE?

DATA STORYON A GLOWING RECTANGLE NEAR YOU

„Our city is now a better place“-- Local Authority

„It‘s a wonder how we could do without it“ -- Government

DIGGING DEEPER

AN OPEN DATA PRODUCTION

„Surprisingly helpful“

-- User

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Some ideas and concepts presented here have received funding from the European Community's Seventh FrameworkProgramme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 257019 (VISION Cloud)