22. First Principles
“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free
to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at
most, to the requirement to attribute and share-
alike.” OpenDefinition.org
“Records shared with the public digitally, over the
Internet, in a way that promotes analysis & reuse.”
-OpenGovData.org
31. “Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s
restaurant inspection site has gone from
10,000 hits per month to 124,000”
- New York Times
32.
33. Fauxpen Data
In an age of “openwashing”…
We need to:
Evaluate licenses.
Peruse the Terms of Service.
Review the governance.
Look at community.
Check the format.
34.
35. “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.”
-JavaunMoradi, NPR
48. What does Open Journalism look like?
“A man dies at the heart of a protest: a reporter
wants to discover the truth.
A journalist is seeking to contact anyone who can
explain how another victim died while being
restrained on a plane.
A newsroom has to digest 400,000 official
documents released simultaneously.”
-Alan Rusbridger
55. 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
60. The future is mobile.
In 2012, 88% of
Americans have a
cellphone. 46%
have smartphone
60%+ of
American adults
go online
wirelessly.
Source: Pew
Internet
72. "The transparency genie is out of the bottle —
world wide — and it's not going back into the
darkness of that lantern ever again.
Progress will be slow, but it will be progress.”
- Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation