Very brief overview of data journalism as part of a talk given at CFJ Paris, May 2011. Original presentation had 7 tips - focused on 2 of those hence odd numbering.
1. New information for new
journalists: Data journalism
Paul Bradshaw
Visiting Professor, City University London
Course Leader, MA Online Journalism, Birmingham City University
Publisher, Online Journalism Blog
Founder, Help Me Investigate
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2. 1. What is it?
Open and automated
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3. “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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12. 2. Why is it important?
Data arms races and viability
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13. “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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22. 7 Clean your data -
and treat it like
any source
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23. “ 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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24. “ 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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