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@PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University and City University London BBC Future Day, September 2014 #sousveillance #bbcfuture

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Slides from a talk at the BBC, September 2014

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@PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University and City University London

BBC Future Day, September 2014

#sousveillance !#bbcfuture

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!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc

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1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

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1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

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VS.

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FIGHT!

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Daniel Ellsberg: $20,000.00 Bradley Manning: $0,000.18

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Daniel Ellsberg + friends and family: over 1 year Bradley Manning: 5 minutes

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Daniel Ellsberg + friends and family: over 1 year Bradley Manning: 5 minutes (would have taken Ellsberg 18 years to copy)

http://helpmeinvestigate.com/blog/the-leak-movement-this-machine-kills-secrets/

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“More than 160 times larger than the leak of U.S. State Department documents by Wikileaks in 2010.”

http://helpmeinvestigate.com/blog/the-leak-movement-this-machine-kills-secrets/

#OffshoreLeaks

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http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/evolution-in-the-workflow-how-wgsn-brought-together-two-global-fashion-forecasters

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“No journalist was able to do the story because each month’s data was 2GB and you can’t open that in Excel.”

Nicola Hughes, prescriptions story, The Times http://billyehrenberg.tumblr.com/post/85211771230/what-skills-do-you-need-to-survive-in-the-future-of

No story too big?

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“When reading a study, you can only account for multiple comparisons when you know about all the comparisons made by the investigators.”

http://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/6/statistics/index.htm?beware_of_multiple_comparisons.htm

Multiple comparisons problem

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1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

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“Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police department’s website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago.”

Adrian Holovaty

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http://2014.okfestival.org/okfestival-2014-stories-thought-experiments-in-sensor-journalism-notes-from-a-sensor-journalism-workshop-at-okfest14/ http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/03/sensor-journalism-data-journalism.html

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline

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1. Big data 2. Live data 3. User data

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“The best thing to serve each user, based on all the information we know about them … editors [can] override those choices.” !

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3036091/the-next-big-thing-in-responsive-design

LA Times’s responsive design

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http://www.autonewscast.com/2008/10/25/nissan-to-pilot-intelligent-transport-system-model/

Telematics + the ‘fifth screen’

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“Authorities were blocking photographers [&] news helicopters. Public Lab relied on weather balloons and kites with digital cameras.”

http://towcenter.org/sensors-and-journalism-public-lab-homebrew-hardware/

Public Lab + sensors

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http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/06/the-cicadas-are-here-4-lessons-from-wnycs-cicada-tracker-project/

WNYC: Audience involvement

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-detection-system-documents-39000-shooting-incidents-in-the-district/2013/11/02/055f8e9c-2ab1-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Washpo: ShotSpotter

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1. Big data: more of it in all industries, but needs holding to account too. 2. Live data: what systems to alert, report, utilise? 3. User data: connect, engage, mobilise, sousveillance?

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Thank you.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspi/12944421

@PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University and City University London

BBC Future Day, September 2014