Post on 21-Oct-2014
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Jelle Kamsma@DDJelle
Data Journalism
What can journalists do with data?
NU.nl
Increasing focus towards making own news
Data journalism @ NU.nl• Supplementing articles
with interactive visualizations
• Doing own research into data
Three considerations
• Working alone or with others?• Start with the data or a question?• Unlocking the data or storytelling?
• Finding the data• Analyzing the data• Visualizing the data
Three challenges
• Statline, Eurostat, OECD, the World Bank etc.• Open data• Old-fashioned journalistic handy work
Finding the data
http://esa.un.org/peps/Preliminary-Results/tables/preliminary-results_2011-02-25.htm
Finding the data: UN World Population Prospects
“Numeracy should be as valued by news orgs as literacy.”
Paul Bradshaw
Analyzing the data
• Merging tables• Doing calculations
Analyzing the data: UN World Population Prospects
• Not just the end product• Free tools
Visualizing the data
Visualizing the data: Google Charts
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
Visualizing the data: Fusion Tables
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html
Questions?
Jelle Kamsmajelle@nu.nl@DDJelle
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