introduction in data journalism

DATA JOURNALISMNika Aleksejeva

Infogram

2015

Design

Journalism

Programming

Statistics

Florence Nightingale

The Cholera Map of John Snow (1854)

Florence Nightingale

Alastair Dant

David Leigh

Afghanistan war logs: our selection of significant incidents (2010)

Pro Publica

DATA JOURNALISM VS. JOURNALISM WITH DATA

WHERE TO GET DATA FROM?

From someone Yourself

International organisations

National bureau of statistics

Governmental agencies

NGOs

Researches

Companies

Social media

Crowdsourcing

Pooling

Surveying

Monitoring

Experimenting

PROCESS OF DATA JOURNALISM

Find

Analyse

Clean

Visualize

Find

Find

Search certain sites

site:company.com key word

Find cashed site

cache:http://comapny.com

Exact phrase searching

“refugee crisis”

Two words are close to each other, but not necessarily in a specific order

refugee AROUND(2) crisis

Exclude terms

European refugee -crisis

File type searching

refugee crisis filetype:pdf

Occurrences in the title of the page

allintitle:refugee crisis

Occurrences in the links to the page

allinanchor:refugee crisis

Similar terms

Christmas ~dessert recipes

Google advanced search

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Find

Google scrapers

Clean

Analyse

Visualize

Manual AutomatedSemi-automated

HTML CSS

Javascript

One dimension Two dimensions Three+ dimensions

Bar

LineAreaPie Picto

Scatterplot

Bubble

Compare See tendency Relationships

Map

Visualize

AN EXAMPLE

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Are many of immigrants in EU refugees?

QUESTIONS OF INTEREST

➤ To which European countries most of the immigrants are going to?

➤ Is it a lot for those countries?

➤ How many people received refugee status from which European countries in 2013?

➤ Is it a lot for those countries?

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS

➤ What are the most common reasons for asylum seekers to be rejected?

➤ What happens with rejected asylum seekers?

➤ What policies do countries with big immigrant populations implement to:

➤ integrate

➤ provide equal opportunities

RESOURCES

Youtube

Twitter

#ddj

#datajournalism

Forums

NICAR-L

DDJ mailinglist

Books

Data Journalism Handbook

Finding Stories With Spreadsheets

Movie

Journalism in the Age of Data

Blogs

Dear Data

Flowing Data

Data Counts (Spanish)

Organizations

Open Knowledge - School of Data

EJC - Data Driven Journalism

HAVE A GOOD DATA-DRIVEN TIME!

@nikaaleksejeva nika.aleksejeva@gmail.com