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Delivered at a mini-conference on the future of journalism held at Northampton University on 7 March 2013, the presentation shares the idea that Big Data is to impact newsrooms across the globe as well as reporting practices in the fashion the online move did in 1996-1997 when CNN and BBC news channels both got their websites live.

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+Imagine the Future:

How will Big Data shape newsrooms in ten years’ time?

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Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005

“You cannot connect the dots looking forward,you can only connect the dots looking backward.”

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+Timeline Exercise

Let’s stand in March 7th 2023 ten years from now. What do we remember? What events shaped our path?

RAW DATA NOW! Speech

by TBL

Open data movement

Big Data Experiments

Data-driven Newsrooms

March 2013

NOW

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+House of Cards:a Netflix Big Data Experiment

Over 3m users world-wide generate data with every show they watch, every film, every pause, rewind or fast-forward.

Netflix doesn’t know why you paused, but they know when, where and if you resumed your watching.

Each user has a profile with individual recommendations - all based on math.

Big Data result: Netflix original series based on British Drama “House of Cards” was known to be exactly as popular as it turned out to be.

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Netflix released all episodes at once, a call based on user viewing behaviours and went to produce three different trailers for their selected types of user profiles.

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+Open Data Movement lead by the Open Knowledge Foundation Raw Data Now! by TBL

OKFN a pioneer of Open Data

Open Spending project

Open UK Post Code Data petition

another example

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Source: MZL.com

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+Data Journalism Avalanche

Data journalism projects get an ever wider-audience.

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+Big Data beginnings to mimic Online swipe of newsrooms

The BBC went online on 1997 according to Mike Smartt the designer and mastermind behind their website.

“The reason that the BBC decided to go online was that CNN went online in 1996. And because the BBC doesn’t do anything in a hurry, it took it a very long time to actually decide to go online,” he told students at Coventry Uni in May 2010.

From a group of geeks in the back of a newsroom, all reporters are today required to file copy online.

Can we then say we will all be required to conditional format in Excel and talk R?

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+This is how I see it now

By March 2023 a data driven culture will have been embedded into all newsrooms across the world.

All investigative work will have data at its core.

CMS systems will allow for words and cells.

All journalists will speak R.

Organisations will have come up with a good reason for not releasing their data.

The era of beautiful data now will start.

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One of my (many) first steps

Digital landscape is continuously evolving, growing rapidly

Generation Z has grown up digital

More than Facebook and Siri; a way of thinking, communicating, and living

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FROM THE GROUND UP

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