Data Journalism - Finding Data
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The inverted pyramid of data journalism
By Paul Bradshaw
TOOLS
Fusion Tables
Anybody can do it!
How?
Finding the data
Cleaning/fixing the data Analysing the data Visualising the data
+ Wri>ng the story
FINDING THE DATA
Official Sta9s9cs centers and organisa9ons (Open) Data portals Contac9ng the data provider and asking for data Freedom Of Informa9on (FOI) request Programming/APIs Data Scraping Crowdsourcing/Collec9ng the data
CSO Census Eurostat UN World Bank World Health Organiza9on Various government department ...
Official Data Providers
cso.ie
Dublinked.ie Data.gov.ie Data.gov.uk NYC Open data … Gapminder Guardian Data store Irish Times Databank …
Data Portals & Aggregators
Data Alerts
RSS Feeds
Data release Calendars
hEp://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/sta>s>csdueforrelease/
hEp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/news/release-‐calendar
Email Alerts
ChangeDetec9on.com
SEARCH
AND/OR “ ” * -‐phrase Site:.ie Filetype:xls Advance Search Operators in Google: h\ps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en h\p://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
How to best search?
DATA SCRAPING
=ImportHTML(“URL”, “query: table or list”, index)
Ques>ons?
Bahareh R. Heravi
@Bahareh360
Bahareh.Heravi@insight-‐centre.org