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DATA JOURNALISM
Peter VerweijWits University Johannesburg
Sept 2012
The end of news and journalismThe Economist and DNR
Are social media killing news?
News breaks on Twitter first
Twitter as the alarm bell of journalism
Example TK1951 of Amsterdam airport
But this is not the end of quality reporting: data journalism
Some examples of Data Journalism
Olympics and the ranking
Including: population, GDP, team
Guardian
Examples 2
Traffic accidents Download data Top ten Put them on the map
Examples 3
Classic Hurricane Andrew
What is Data Journalism?
Finding stories In the public interest Without a legal
foundation From a pile of data
IT IS THE STORY NOT THE DATA
How do you do it?
Get the data from NBS, NGO: download or copy paste
Search web for xls Scrape data Pdf to cvs and xls Analyze: excel or R Visualize: manyeyes,
tableau, qgis
From NL to ZA
SA parliament data NL parliament data And here is my map
Data journalism is:
TEAMWORK: Writer Researcher/
statistician Hacker Designer
QUALITY JOURNALISM
Nick Davies – Flat Earth News – churnalism
Checking is the justification of our profession
50 years old
Introducing computers to journalism
Philip Meyer and the Detriots Riots
And the London Riots
Names of the beast: precision, analytical, car, ddj
Zoom in: tools of science
Ch Wright Mills: Power Elite
Social network analysis
Connections Mathematics: walks Tools: NodeXL or
Gehi Twitter: journalists
and MP's
Conclusion
New Possibilities for reporting; new jobs; improve the weak position of the media
Check and review the use of power
Update your knowledge and skills