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Storytelling with Open Data
Rhiannon CoppinJournalist, coder
@coppinr
Storytelling with Open Data
Rhiannon CoppinJournalist, coder
@coppinr
Storytelling with Open Data
Rhiannon CoppinJournalist, coder
@coppinr
(An incomplete survey of cool stuff)
A bit about me…
Web Writer for CBC.ca (part-time)&
Dabble in code, math, stats
• Excited about:– Natural Language Processing (NLP)– Machine Learning (clustering, regression)– Automation (feeds)
Types of stories we tell:
1) Things we already know 2) Things we don’t already know
http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/comparinator/pluralitymap.htmhttp://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?ref=us
Open data• Government data
http://vis.stanford.edu/jheer/d3/pyramid/shift.html
Open data
• Publication information
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/papers/index.html
Open(ish) data
• Publication content – things we know
http://bost.ocks.org/mike/miserables/
Open(ish) data
• Publication content – things we don’t know
http://overview.ap.org/
Twitter: Things we know…
http://blog.echen.me/2012/07/06/soda-vs-pop-with-twitter/
Twitter: Things we don’t know…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter
More animation
• Motion Charts
http://www.gapminder.org/world
More animation (automated)
• Imagine… circulation data
http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/2xWindSpeed.html
More animation (automated)
• Imagine… circulation data
http://hint.fm/wind/
(some) Tools
Open Source• D3.js (also: jQuery)• Overview• R• PANDAFree• Google Refine, Fusion Tables, Motion ChartsOther: Excel, SPSS
Where to go for more
• Open news – Ideas, people, code:– open.blogs.nytimes.com – propublica.org/nerds– blog.apps.chicagotribune.com– datadesk.latimes.com– guardian.co.uk/data– mozillaopennews.org
• Coursera (free!) – stats, data analysis, NLP
Storytelling with Open Data
Rhiannon CoppinJournalist, coder
@coppinr
Thank you!
(An incomplete survey of cool stuff)