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What is DATA JOURNALISM?Peter VerweijDar Es Salaam Tanzania December 2014The Guardian over Riots and Poverty

Simon Rogers:- free softwareopen datachecking power elite

Steve Doig:Social science done on deadline

Philip Meyer:Precison journalism: using the tools of science to improve reporting

WHAT IS YOUR CONCLUSION?School sanitation in Khayelitsha

Simple and good by a junior reporter of the Cape TimesHere is the link to the story

Water In GrahamstownLink to the story:

What is data journalism?Journalism is truth seeking stories in the public interest;Data journalism tries to find these stories in data Data journalism is news making not news copying; pro active reportingData journalism tries to enhance the quality of reportingData journalism tries to find new subscribers to medium/newspaperWhy data journalism?From print to onlineFrom text to multimedia productionFrom news to background, analysis, investigations and featuresLooking for a new business model and for a new journalisthttp://www.economist.com/node/18904136

Finding Data: story ideaWHERE:National Bureau for statisticsNGO'sWeb: find excelWeb: tables

8Turn the web in a database

HOW:DownloadCopy-pasteScraping: Outwit HubPdf to excel

Mother of all Data JournalismAnalyzing dataSpreadsheetsMS Office: excelOpen OfficeR project or PSPPCleaning data: RefineOrdering data: top10Simple calculations for key figuresGraphs: bar, pie, scatter diagrams

10Visualize data in maps and graphsBiggest cities in Namibia

Crime in Namibia in FT

Visualize with Tableau

Data Journalism: team work and importantIMPORTANTMore dataMore use of data for policiesCheckFind hidden trendsTEAM WORKWriterResearcherHackerDesigner Involvement of the editor13Doig about data journalism: Social science done on deadline How does data journalism work?

JournalismStory ideaFinding data sourcesCollecting data: importing scrapingAnalyzing dataProduce the story: visualize ScienceHypothesisBuilding a measurement toolFieldwork and experimentAnalyzing data

Test the hypothesisPublish in a journal

Convergence Cooperation between hardcopy and online Online interactive data Hardcopy static picture Complementing approaches

From Database: 2000 accidentsTop tenDangerous junctionsMap is the storyAdd additional reporting from junctionsElection Example

static maps: election results by municipality

Interactive maps: with a map server

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Drs. Peter Verweij D3-MEDIApeter@d3-media.nlWeb: www.d3-media.nlBlogs: d3-media.blogspot.com