Download - Data Journalism (very abridged)
New information for new journalists: Data journalism
Paul BradshawVisiting Professor, City University LondonCourse Leader, MA Online Journalism, Birmingham City UniversityPublisher, Online Journalism BlogFounder, Help Me Investigate
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1. What is it? Open and automated
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“Each weekday, my computer program goes to the Chicago Police Department's website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago.”
Adrian Holovaty
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2. Why is it important? Data arms races and viability
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“The Tribune’s biggest magnet by far has been its more than three dozen interactive databases, which collectively have drawn three times as many page views as the site’s stories.”
http://bit.ly/dj2dmz
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Holding power to accountEngagementTargeting/relevance
Why?
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3. How do we do it? Brain and brawn
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Data Journalism Continuum
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Compile. Clean.
Connect..
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Look for context - understand
statistics4
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Clean your data - and treat it like
any source7
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Because we take the time to clean the data, we are able to do
lobbying stories no other news organisation can do."
- David Donald, Center for Public Integrity
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We cleaned up the data so that we were able to calculate
how much grant was being lost over two years, and mapped it
with OpenHeatMap.- Paul Gallagher, MEN
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Merci.
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