Jelle Kamsma@DDJelle

Data Journalism

What can journalists do with data?

NU.nl

Increasing focus towards making own news

Data journalism @ NU.nl• Supplementing articles

with interactive visualizations

• Doing own research into data

Three considerations

• Working alone or with others?• Start with the data or a question?• Unlocking the data or storytelling?

• Finding the data• Analyzing the data• Visualizing the data

Three challenges

• Statline, Eurostat, OECD, the World Bank etc.• Open data• Old-fashioned journalistic handy work

Finding the data

http://esa.un.org/peps/Preliminary-Results/tables/preliminary-results_2011-02-25.htm

Finding the data: UN World Population Prospects

“Numeracy should be as valued by news orgs as literacy.”

Paul Bradshaw

Analyzing the data

• Merging tables• Doing calculations

Analyzing the data: UN World Population Prospects

• Not just the end product• Free tools

Visualizing the data

Visualizing the data: Google Charts

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Visualizing the data: Fusion Tables

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html

Visualizing the data: Impure

http://www.impure.com/

Questions?

Jelle Kamsmajelle@nu.nl@DDJelle

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