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2013: a networked public sphere

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Natural disasters

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#Sidibouzid

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#Jan25

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How did we get here?

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In the 1990s, government and civil society spread the Internet globally

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In the 2000s, mobile phones and social networking connected us ever more

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Open Journalism

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The stream

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In the 2010s, big data will change everything again.

Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

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An expanding number of data sources

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Commercial and industry data

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Social data and crisis data

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Open government data platforms

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Open data allows citizens to be generative in new ways

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230 apps now use or are based on open health data

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What about journalism?

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“We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros

Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

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“Data-driven journalism is the future”

Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

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Is “data journalism” just computer assisted reporting

(CAR)?• Spreadsheets• Databases• Text and code editors• Statistics

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“Trendy but not new”-Simon Rogers, Guardian

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Show, don’t tell

A “Sankey diagram”

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What’s changed?

• Online spreadsheets and data tools• Data visualization tools• Open source frameworks • Code sharing• Agile development• Cloud storage and processing (EC2 & Heroku)• The amount of data

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“Newspapers are either going to start doing what we do, or they're going to be bypassed and out of date.”

-Elliot Jaspin

That was 1986, in Time.

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More than 36 interactive databases published Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic

[Source: CJR]

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Global leaders

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ProPublica

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Dollars for Docs

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New York Times

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“Make small things faster, make big things possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT

TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

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The Guardian

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Guardian Datablog

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Chicago Tribune

• Flame retardants

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Offshoring $80 journalists 40 countries 260 gigabytes2.5 million files

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Reuters: Connected China

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Storytelling still matters.

“We use these tools to find and tell stories. We use them like we use a telephone. The story is still the thing.”

- Anthony DeBarros USA Today

Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

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Los Angeles Times

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SOPA Opera

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Best practices?

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Understand the context for the data

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Show your data

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Show your work

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Share your code

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Plan for reuse

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Build on open standards

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Citizen-centric

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Keeping citizens safe

“Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s restaurant inspection site has gone from 10,000 hits per month to 124,000”

- New York Times

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Make data find the people.

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Helps citizens who need it most

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Privacy challenges

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Security challenges• Protect your sources? Protect your data!

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Bridge the data divide

Digital signage on the cheap

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FOIA & Press Freedom

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Fauxpen DataIn an age of “openwashing”…

We need to:

Evaluate licenses.

Peruse the Terms of Service.

Review the governance.

Look at community.

Check the format.

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Wired Italy

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Emerging trends

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Political tensions over open data

• Gun map graphic

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Robo-journalism?

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Data journalists, meet civic hackers

Source: BuzzData

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Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”

Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

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Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh

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Makers and open source hardware

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Networked accountability

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Sensor Journalism

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“If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and scrape data,” then…

Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to release data” in easy to use formats.

Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”, and those sources of data are going to be automated and updated in real-time.”

-Javaun Moradi, NPR

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Data creation

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Data journalism with a purpose

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Co-create a stronger union

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Government of the people, for the people, by the

people, with the people.


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