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Teaching Data Journalism
#EJTA2014, Jyväskylä, May 22Turo Uskali & Heikki Kuutti
Data journalism= Journalismbased on largedata sets
Data journalism (#dj) or data-driven journalism (#ddj)
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a storybased onpieces of(separate)information
PAPER FILEDOCUMENTS
A PAPERDOCUMENT
DATA
a storybased on
(large)combination
of data
INFODATABASE
INFORMATION SYSTEM
DATABASE
DATABASE
DATABASE
DATA
DATA
INFO
INFO
Paper story and data story
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STORYTOPIC
SOURCESELECTION
DATAINSPECTION AND
CLEANING
DATAANALYSIS
INSPECTION OFDATA ANALYSIS
PREPARATION,VISUALISATION
AND PUBBLISHING
INFORMATIONREQUEST
documentsource
humansource
journalisticobservation
data paperdocument
officialdatabase
opendata
internetpaperofficial data
editorialdatabase
data material non-data story material
Datajournalism working process
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JOURNALISTICQUESTIONS DATA
DATA CLEANINGAND ANALYSIS
COMMENTSTO ANALYSIS
DATA STORY
PRE-DATA
POST-DATA
Data story process
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Data journalism courses since 2013• Data Journalism (six weeks) pilot course
consisted of* 16 hours lectures* data journalism literature (The
Data Journalism Handbook)* a data journalistic team project* final seminar
- The pilot course had two main instructors andthree visiting professionals, who were specialists indata visualization and networks, open data, and datajournalism tools.
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Data journalism strories
• The themes of the dj projects varied fromlocal traffic accidents and parking tickets tothe use of Fjällräven backpacks by students’ ofdifferent Faculties in the Uni.
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Feedback from the pilot course
• Almost all the teams had project specificproblems concerning the finding of suitabledata sets.
• Many good story ideas were invalidated by alack of open data.
• In hindsight, the pilot course was possibly toointensive and more than two weeks should beallowed for developing a good data journalismproject.
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Aiming at next level: Strategy for 2014
• Adding four more weeks• Focusing on Jyväskylä’s open data sets• Five data journalism gurus visiting, one student tutor• Connected to data journalism work methods -reseach project• Facebook’s ”help desk”, link sharing and discussion forum• Integrated to EJC’s MOOC
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Social media connection –Collaboration via Facebook groups
• Dj 2013• Dj 2014• Datajournalismiopet (Datajournalism
instructors) 15 followers• Datajournalismin avoin tukiryhmä (Open
Group for Data Journalism Assistance) 250followers
• Finnish Open Data Ecosystem (2172)
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DJ 2014: 11 students started, but not asingle data story yet – WHY?
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Main reason: Months delayes in gettingopen data from the City of Jyväskylä
Image From Wikimedia Commons
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Main lesson learned this time
• Without data, there is no data story.
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Minor setback: EJC’s MOOC on Data Journalism startedtoo late - on Monday (May 19th)
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Important issues in teaching dj
• Journalism laboratory: piloting, testing of keyimportance
• Journalistic questions to be answered by data• Theory and practice combination –research
based
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Important issues in teaching dj
• Know-how of data access and efficient datarequests and negotiations + finding ready-to-use data sets
• Know-how of numbers, statistics• Know-how of basic data tools (Excel, Open
Refine…)• Cooperation with other schools and data
gurus, constantly sharing best practices –European wide next?
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In conclusion: Three levels of datajournalism (education)
• Basic level: General dj (for daily use, based onexisting open data sets, basic data tools)
• Advanced: Investigative dj (”what is in theshadows”, weeks-months of research, FOIrequests, programming skills)
• Real-time (sensor journalism, automatednews creation based on algorithms)