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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
