Data Journalism İstanbul Şehir University

New MediaMay 5, 2015

İstanbul

Pınar Dağ @pinardag | http://about.me/dagpinar | http://www.verigazeteciligi.com/

What is Data Journalism?

It is journalism incorporating data Informing readers with numbers

The Umbrella Description of Investigative Journalism Modern Journalism/ ExcelJournalismJournalism with rich toolkits

Zeroes and Ones Journalism*

-DataJournalism Handbook

Terminology

"computer assisted reporting" approximate founded 320. 000 result datajournalism approximate founded 461.000 result

"data driven journalism" approximate founded 207.000 result "data journalism" approximate founded 445.000 result

"structured journalism" approximate founded 2.220 result___

veri gazeteciliği approximate founded 60.400 result"veri gazeteciliği" approximate founded 10.900 result"veri güdümlü gazetecilik" approximate founded 176 result

Why Now What Its Matter

Araç: Çevrimiçi Araçlara Erişimin Kolaylaşması

Open Data Culture : Goverments start to open their databases for public use and for ease of access.Increasing data tools: Data tools have become free and accessible and without technical knowledge; anyone

can make graphics, maps and visualisation easier.Trust: Turning verified data into news; helping more transparency to built trust between readers and journalists

The inclusion of different professional groups: Including different professional skills into Newsrooms eg( Statistics, Data Science, Programming, Design)

-Simon Rogers, Eva Constantaras, Pınar Dağ

The New Way To “Write” News5 W's & 1H (5N +1K)

Kaynak: School of Data

Not New, but The Future Of Journalism Source: Geçmiş Gazete

Feb, 16, 1930, CumhuriyetSource: Geçmiş Gazete

History of Data Journalism at The Guardian

How is recent description about DDJ (2015)Click video here

Jeremy Gilbert, Washington Post“Data Journalism is one way information can be organised , information that can be sorted through.”

Michelle Minkoff, Associated Press“Data Journalism looks to structure and organise information to find meaning for our world ”

Alberto Cairo, Miami University"Using data for journalistic purposes"

Source:International Symposium on Online Journalism(ISOJ) in April 2015

How Data Journalism Is Changing News 1. 2. 3.

Mapping Fatal Migration Incidents in the Mediterranean

Eva Constantaras

The Process of Data Journalism - Definition and Transformation

Wikileaks files

Search GoogleTrend

#Swissleaks

Swissleaks is the name of a journalistic investigation of a giant tax evasion scheme allegedly operated with the knowledge and encouragement of the British multinational bank HSBC via its Swiss subsidiary, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse). And Turkey is ranked #23 among the countries with the largest dollar amounts in the leaked Swiss files

The 10th day of #swissleaks revealed it opened 10 investigations to HSBC(Link ) (Link)

#luxleaks It is based on confidential information regarding Luxembourg’s tax rulings, set up by PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2010 to the benefit of its clients. This investigation resulted in making tax rulings available to the public in November 2014 for over three hundred multinational companies in Luxembourg.

What Is The Process?

Data Collecting Data Filtering /Cleaning/Analyzing

Data Visualization Story

*vice versa/tersi *Team work

Rising Value To Public

Data Collecting

Data Collecting / Making the data set is the most important part of Data Journalism . And when you decide to make your own data set then it can be more difficult.

What Can Be Data Sources Search Engines [Csv, xls,kml, pdf files, Index databases ] Data Providing Institutions Official Sites, Freedom Of Information, Datacatalogs.org,Tüik,Tübitak, Nasa, UN, World Bank, OECD Database etc. Special Data Providing Sites/Data Banks: Datahub.io, Scraperwiki, Scraper (Plugin),Gap Minder,Import.io Experts: Data Journalist, Data Experts, Data Miners, Data Scientists, Forums, School of Datas' Database, Q&A Platforms, Data Driven Journalism.Net, www.verigazeteciligi.com DDJ mailing group, Create Google Forum/StudyGet the Data, Quora), *Crowdsourcing **The Most Important One

2015 FIRST PRE-SELECTION OF THE DATA JOURNALISM AWARDS Open Database of Deceased Workers in Turkey

http://madencilik.dagmedya.net/Click for data set

SOMAFILE

FOI request

1 of 8 FOI requested on August 2014 received an answer on Dec 12 after 5 months. Still did not get 7 FOI request answers yet from ministry.

“Applied Jan 30 to FOI requested and received Feb 17.” Just in time

answer but with poor content.

Data Filtering /Cleaning / Analyzing

For Data Filtering/Cleaning / Analyzing can use different programs. Below, we can see the table of data cleaning programs. Some other Programs (Spreedsheet, Google Spreadsheets, Open (libreoffice, Microsoft Excel, Google Refine , Data Wrangler, CometDocs, Ms Excel, Mr. Data Converter, SPSS etc) *GIS:Geographic information system

x

Hassel Fallas

Data Visualization**Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped /Iraq

At this stage it is important how you present your

data and make things more easy to understand..

Some open viz examples: Silk.co, Tableau Public,

Many eyes, ColorBrewer,D3.js, FusionCharts ,

Fusion Tables , Fusion Tables Layer Wizard, Gephi ,

Google Charts , Google Maps Style Wizard ,

HighCharts , Raphaël ,SHP

Escape

Deaths Data Set

Missing Child Data/ News

There was the disappearance of a child in Istanbul in April 2014 and this news drove the public interest greatly. On a daily basis, hundreds of children go missing all around Turkey, however this particular case warranted more media attention, for

reasons which were unclear. Therefore, we wanted to search and make investigative data journalism based on other missing children's data etc. However we were faced with some difficulties as there were three different sets of data from

three separate sources. This made reporting or sourcing data on this subject extremely confusing.

According to the Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI):27000 children are missing

Ministry of the Interior:15000

Lost Relatives Families Association (YAKAD):30000

So upon doing some research with these organizations we were left with three difference sets of information.

What did we do about this?●We produced news articles regarding the discrepancies in the sources of information regarding these missing

children to drive the public interest higher and alert people of these issues during the time of the previously mentioned high interest in the missing Istanbul child case. This brought awareness during this peak time to the fact that there are

problems with differences in data for this very sensitive and important issue.

What has happened since?●We made 2 FOI request in 2014 to Ministry of the Interior however we are yet to receive any answers. We will be

resending the questions again.

Changing social structure along a bus line in Berlinhttp://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/m29/

Case Study

Data analysis in

Action

Winner of the DataJournalism Awards 2014A database listing more than 29,000 migrants who died on their way to Europe since 2000.

Turkey also features in the routes. Data is updated on a regular basis. The project also provides sanctions.#MigrantsFile

http://www.jplusplus.org/en/project/the-migrants-files/

2014 Best Data Visualization Project

How New York City has changed in 12 years:e.g Bicycle paths, new buildings, including green areas

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new-york/

Formation of First Data Journalism Handbook

The book came out after Wikileaks files were revealed by different Newsrooms editors worldwide. The book was translated 13 languages, including Turkish. Newsrooms were: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC, The Chicago Tribune,Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, The Financial Times,

Helsingin Sanomat, La Nación (Argentina), The New York Times, ProPublica, The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune, Verdens Gang, Wales Online ve Zeit Online

Some WorldWide Data Journalism Portals

The Guardian Datablog , The New York Times UpShot,i100independent, ZeitOnline Datablog, The Washington Post Data Post, FiveThirtyEight,

Propublica, Badhessian.org

In Turkey Dağ Medya

www.verigazeteciligi.com

Data Journalism Awards Since 2013 ( National /International)

Data Journalism in Communication Faculties

Tilburg University, City University London, Stanford University, Columbia Journalism School

28.1% of journalists say they’d like more training about

Data Journalism (rated in 2013, may be more now)

How About Turkey?

Kadir Has University (Already Second Year 2013- Continue )In Process:

Ankara İLEF Communication (2015-2016) (Done ddj workshop)

Ege University of Communication (2015-2016) (Will do ddj workshop)

Ankara Hacettepe Communication ( 2015-2016) (Done ddj workshop)Beykent New Media (2015-2016) (Done ddj seminer)

Aydın University of Communication (Done seminer)

How about in the media?#ddj #datajournalist #verigazeteciliği #vg

What is our current position, and what are our future goals regardingData Journalism In Turkey?

Data Journalism Platform, Data Journalism School, Reginal Open Data /Journalism ConferenceData Journalism Workshops / Courses (In 3 Year 15 Workshops)

Görünüm Newspaper Website Launches Test Data Section Release After DDJ Workshop ( 34 Years Old İLEF Newspaper)

Data Journalism Platform: News from Data, Data from News (Funded by TÜBİTAK)

How Do You Start

Be Curious /InterestRegularly reading resources

Following Hastags #ddj #ddjedu #vg #datajournalism #verigazeteciliğiSpending time in excel

Learning basic statistics (Jump to Statistics)Following the groups (Open Data Platform)

Regularly review the projects

**Golden Rule

Share The Information You Learn,And Be An Open Source For Everyone

OR…Contact Global Data Journalist Directory People

Thank you for listening.