introduction in data journalism
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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
#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