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MPs’ Expenses et al.
Stories in
data
Tony Hirst@psychemedia
1“Data” helps you FIND the story
PatternTrends
StructureDifferences
ChangeOutliers
Top & Bottom
Data DistributionsIBM Many Eyes
Outliers
the power of sort…
the power of bins…
Trends and (anti)correlations...
Scatter thy data…
Changing Perspective
My introduction
to “Data Driven
Journalism”
aka “seasonal subseries”
“Calendar” time
Big Picture ContextMacroscopes
A & B ~ CB & C ~ A
C ~ A&B
Flow…
Sankey diagrams
Structure
…made with Gephi
…made with Gephi
Writing Diagrams
Rstudio / ggplot
2“Data” can also TELL a story…
IF you know how to read it
IF you spend the time reading it
If a picture is worth a thousand words,
and a thousand words takes 5-10 minutes to read,
maybe that’s how long you should spend reading the picture…
So how can data tell a
story?
http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/Structure&Plot.htm
Triangulation
again…
Changing Perspective
Processing(.js)
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