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What is DATA JOURNALISM?Peter VerweijDar Es Salaam Tanzania December 2014The Guardian over Riots and Poverty
Simon Rogers:- free softwareopen datachecking power elite
Steve Doig:Social science done on deadline
Philip Meyer:Precison journalism: using the tools of science to improve reporting
WHAT IS YOUR CONCLUSION?School sanitation in Khayelitsha
Simple and good by a junior reporter of the Cape TimesHere is the link to the story
Water In GrahamstownLink to the story:
What is data journalism?Journalism is truth seeking stories in the public interest;Data journalism tries to find these stories in data Data journalism is news making not news copying; pro active reportingData journalism tries to enhance the quality of reportingData journalism tries to find new subscribers to medium/newspaperWhy data journalism?From print to onlineFrom text to multimedia productionFrom news to background, analysis, investigations and featuresLooking for a new business model and for a new journalisthttp://www.economist.com/node/18904136
Finding Data: story ideaWHERE:National Bureau for statisticsNGO'sWeb: find excelWeb: tables
8Turn the web in a database
HOW:DownloadCopy-pasteScraping: Outwit HubPdf to excel
Mother of all Data JournalismAnalyzing dataSpreadsheetsMS Office: excelOpen OfficeR project or PSPPCleaning data: RefineOrdering data: top10Simple calculations for key figuresGraphs: bar, pie, scatter diagrams
10Visualize data in maps and graphsBiggest cities in Namibia
Crime in Namibia in FT
Visualize with Tableau
Data Journalism: team work and importantIMPORTANTMore dataMore use of data for policiesCheckFind hidden trendsTEAM WORKWriterResearcherHackerDesigner Involvement of the editor13Doig about data journalism: Social science done on deadline How does data journalism work?
JournalismStory ideaFinding data sourcesCollecting data: importing scrapingAnalyzing dataProduce the story: visualize ScienceHypothesisBuilding a measurement toolFieldwork and experimentAnalyzing data
Test the hypothesisPublish in a journal
Convergence Cooperation between hardcopy and online Online interactive data Hardcopy static picture Complementing approaches
From Database: 2000 accidentsTop tenDangerous junctionsMap is the storyAdd additional reporting from junctionsElection Example
static maps: election results by municipality
Interactive maps: with a map server
Thank you very muchData: http://ge.tt/7IV8tM52 @ @------------oOO-(_)-OOo---------
Drs. Peter Verweij [email protected]: www.d3-media.nlBlogs: d3-media.blogspot.com