Given as part of the panel discussion as part of Newsroom 360 data journalism event

1. NEWS 360 DATA DAY
ENGAGING THE DATA
MINDSET
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 19/2012
MIRKO LORENZ
DEUTSCHE WELLE INNOVATION PROJECTS

2. MIRKO LORENZ
JOURNALIST/INFORMATION ARCHITECT
FOCUS ON TRAINING
JOURNALISTS AND DEVELOPING
NEWSROOM DATA TOOLS

3. NEXT 1O MINUTES
1. OPEN DATA & OPEN SOURCE
2. STEPPING STONES: DATA TOOLS
3. KEY QUESTION: WHAT DO USERS WANT?
4. KEY CHALLENGE: CHANGING NEWSROOMS
5. OUTLOOK: OPPORTUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS

4. 1. OPEN DATA & OPEN SOURCE -
LIKE SWITCHING FROM
SCREWDRIVER TO
POWER-DRILL

5. MANY USES FOR (OPEN) DATA
Wordle from Open Data Conference in Kanada. Some rights reserved by susannelong

6. „GOVERNMENT IS A WEBSITE“
Source: OKF/CKAN

7. "I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open
data! I want to see more citizens and businesses
making use of more open – machine readable –
data." - Neelie Kroes

8. STEPPING STONES:
DATA TOOLS OUT THERE

9. STEPPING STONES selection.datavisualization.ch

10. OPEN SOURCE DATA VAULT

11. OPEN SOURCE DATA HUB
Source: OKF/CKAN

12. OPEN SOURCE DATA VISUALIZATION

13. IN SHORT:
FINDING, STORING, FILTERING,
ANALYSING AND VISUALIZING
DATA IS IN REACH OF EVERY
NEWSROOM NOW

14. 3. KEY QUESTION:
WHAT DO USERS WANT?

15. To be truthful and revealing, data graphics must
bear on the question at the heart of quantitative
thinking: “Compared to what?
Source = Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

17. PUT NUMBERS INTO CONTEXT
Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

18. Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

19. USERS WILL WANT CLEAR ANSWERS AND TRUSTABLE INFORMATION
_Source: Visual.ly, 2011

21. IN SHORT:
DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM
OPENS A DOOR TO SWITCH
FROM ATTENTION TO TRUST

22. 4. KEY CHALLENGE:
CHANGING THE NEWSROOM

23. DATA-JOURNALISM IS A PROCESS
DEF:
DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM
= WORKFLOW

24. THREE LEVELS OF APPLICATION
Data Data Data
Stories Specials Apps
Time
Hours Days Weeks
needed
Know-How Low High Experts
Google
Tool Excel Coding
Refine
Months or
Lifespan Day or Week Months
Years

25. 5. OUTLOOK:
OPPORTUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS

26. 5. OUTLOOK:
OPPORTUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS

27. BUT: MIND THE GAP
TIME NEEDED TO BUILT KNOW-
HOW AND PROFICIENCY -
QUALITY OF SOURCES, DATA
LITERACY, AGILE DEVELOPMENT

29. Quelle: Alan McLean, NYT//Amsterdam, 2010

31. THANK YOU.