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

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