data journalism and the remaking of data infrastructures
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Data Journalism and the Remaking of Data Infrastructures
University of Bath | Institute for Policy Research |14 September 2016 Liliana Bounegru | University of Groningen and University of Ghent | lilianabounegru.org
Washington, I. (2013). “Overcome your fear of numbers, uncover great stories like these.”http://journalists.org/2013/03/19/overcome-your-fear-of-numbers-uncover-great-stories-like-these/
Rogers, S. (2011). “Data journalism broken down: what we do to the data before you see it.”https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/07/data-journalism-workflow
“‘Just good enough data’ ... creates a shared space for discussion that can communicate community awareness of pollution events to regulators.” (Gabrys, J. & Pritchard, H. 2015. “Next-Generation Environmental Sensing: Moving Beyond Regulatory Benchmarks for Citizen-Gathered Data.”)
Data journalism and the making and remaking of data infrastructures
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures2. Data journalism and tool ecologies for the valorisation of data
CHANGING WHAT COUNTSCHANGING
WHAT COUNTSHOW CAN CITIZEN-GENERATED AND CIVIL SOCIETY DATA BE USED AS AN ADVOCACY TOOL TO CHANGE OFFICIAL DATA COLLECTION?
Jonathan Gray
Danny Lämmerhirt
Liliana Bounegru
Bounegru, L. & Venturini, T. (forthcoming). “Mapping Journalism Code Ecologies for the Valorisation of Data on GitHub.”
Data journalism and the making and remaking of data infrastructures
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures2. Data journalism and tool ecologies for the valorisation of data
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures: some tactics and examples
1.1 Make your own data1.2 Reverse engineering
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures: some tactics and examples
1.1 Make your own data1.2 Reverse engineering
– Moradi, J. (2011). “What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?” http://javaunmoradi.com/blog/2011/12/16/what-do-open-sensor-networks-mean-for-journalism/
“If stage 1 of data journalism was ‘find and scrape data,’ then stage 2 was ‘ask government agencies to release
data,’ in easy to use formats. Stage 3 is going to be ‘make your own data.’”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/fbi-chief-says-ridiculous-guardian-washington-post-better-information-police-shootings
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures: some tactics and examples
1.1 Make your own data1.2 Reverse engineering
First: John Middle: Last: Public DOB: 01/01/1975 SSN: 1234 State: Colorado
First: John Middle: Q. Last: Public DOB: 01/01/1975 SSN: 1234 State: Kansas
Potential match
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/
Data journalism and the making and remaking of data infrastructures
1. Data journalism as intervention in data infrastructures2. Data journalism and tool ecologies for the valorisation of data
https://github.com/search?q=stars:%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories
Bounegru, L. & Venturini, T. (forthcoming). “Mapping Journalism Code Ecologies for the Valorisation of Data on GitHub.”
https://github.com/california-civic-data-coalition/django-calaccess-raw-data
Thank You!Liliana Bounegru | University of Groningen and University of Ghent |
lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana