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Data Journalism

The up and downs and the future

Lisa Evans

What is Data Journalism?

Data journalism is:

stripping down the news to the bare facts and relating these facts

(sometimes this process creates new news)

Isn’t journalism fact based anyway?

Isn’t that investigative journalism?

Isn’t that research?

Let’s look at the trends(the functions of data journalism)

AccountabilityWhere does our money go?Q. A.

Work it out!

what does the government spend money on?

how well our tax"investment" is doing?

owed and owned – debts = return to investors

investment and profits + debts = owned and owed

Accountability

Accountability

Policy Analysis

Prof David MacKay

How does our energy usecompare with energy made?

Or

If we had same approach for tuition fee policy …

… would this still happen?

Bringing the data to life

How can people make sense of this?

All central government spend over £25,000

Using well-defined facts

Freedom of Information

(add george osborns)

Freedom of Information

(Add Rejection of freedom of information)

Tools we use

KEY: Project Miso + D3 Google spreadsheets, fusion, maps Tableau Many eyes Aspic

http://misoproject.com/

http://d3js.org/

How is this data journalism working out?

How successful are we?

All UK daily newspapers

How does the Guardian circulation compare to other quality news providers?

Online figures

The datablog and data store is the second most popular blog

on the Guardian website

Why?Engagement

The Future

Challenges: The news system is not set up for data

journalists(the press officer problem the time to gather and connect information

no specialists yet)

Two possible futures

Either:we get quicker and better preparedorwe create news by becoming specialist

Thank you

Lisa Evans

Lisa.Evans@guardian.co.uk

@datastore@objectgroup