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Data JournalismHaving Conversations with Data

Tony HirstComputing and Communications

The Open University

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What is journalism?

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[sensemaking]

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What is data?

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[a particular type of source]

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Data is just another type of

source…

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What is data journalism?

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Data journalism is investigative

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Journalism that uses data as one

of the sources

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(We don’t have to produce a map or a chart in the

final piece)

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The practice of data journalism

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1find stories

2tell stories

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1find stories

where’s the data?

what’s the data?

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THE BLOCKERS

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“Data points are just words, but when connected with a squiggly line they tell a story”

Christopher Brown, “Making Sense of Squiggly Lines”, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9832593-1-2

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“Conversations with data”

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ouseful.info - A Wrangling Example With OpenRefine: Making “Oven Ready Data”

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THE BLOCKERS

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Tidying data

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Know

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ls…

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Data DistributionsIBM Many Eyes

Outliers

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amid

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Data can confirm what we think we

know

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Data can surprise us and force us to rethink what we think we know

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Trends and (anti)correlations...

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Data makes most sense

when contextualised

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THE BLOCKERS

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[statistics]

(the art of looking at one number in the context of other numbers)

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Asking Questions of Data

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Data DistributionsIBM Many Eyes

Outliers

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We need to teach people how to ask questions

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We need to teach people how to

read charts

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SQL

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SQL was developed as a

navigational aid

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Reproducibility

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2 tell stories

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…but that’s another story…

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@psychemedia

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