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Online JournalismCity UniversityPaul Bradshaw
Data journalism
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1. What is it?2. Where to get it3. How to get it
Themes
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“Each weekday, my computer program goes to the Chicago Police Department's website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago.”
Adrian Holovaty
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Times film genres
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• Times Data Blog
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”QUOTE”
Now is a good time.
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“The Tribune’s more than three dozen interactive databases, collectively have drawn three times as many page views as the site’s stories. [75% of traffic]”
http://bit.ly/dj2dmz
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What is data?
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NumbersTextLive dataBehavioural dataImages, audio, video
Anything that a computer can work with
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Start with the data and look for the stories? (MPs’ expenses)Or start with a lead and look for the data?
Passive vs active data journalism
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Data Journalism Continuum
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Data.gov.ukGuardian datastoreOpenlylocal,Open Corporates, Open Charities, Who's Lobbying etc.FOI requests (WDTK), disclosure logsBooks - British Political Facts
Finding
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GetTheData.orgWDMMG forumsMySociety mailing listsOpen Data CookbookWolfram Alpha forum
Finding – data communities
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Government - national and local'Monitors' - regulators & other bodiesCharities, pressure groupsInstitutions - academic, scientific, healthBusiness, financeMedia, entertainment, sport
Other secondary sources
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Site:gov.uk (etc)Filetype:pdf (etc) Imagine the page you hope to find, including jargon etc. Database contents are invisibleGoogle News alerts: report OR review
Advanced search
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"quotes search for exact phrases""disclosure logs" site:nhs.uk + ensures page contains word: +logs- omits results with word: -wooden* wildcard, e.g. "deaths * custody"~ synonyms, e.g. ~deaths
Advanced search
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Tip: use overseas sources
• US medicine databases• EU subsidy databases • Swedish people data• International police agency
correspondence with UK
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RSS, XML, JSON, RDF - and APIsScraperwikiOutwit HubYahoo! PipesSpreadsheet formulae(look them up)
Feeds and scrapers
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Format? Table? Pattern? URL?
'Structured' data
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http://www.eib.org/projects/pipeline/?start=2009&end=2010&status=®ion=&country=united+kingdom§or=
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'Structured' HTML? (Use Firebug)
<p> <strong>Case Ref: FS50295557 <br />Date: 04/11/2010 <br />Public Authority: London Borough of Southwark <br />Summary: </strong>The complainant requested a copy of the authorities approved business plan [...]<br /><strong>Section of Act/EIR & Finding: </strong>FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld <br /><a title="Opens in new window" href="~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50295557.ashx" target="_blank">View PDF of Decision Notice FS50295557</a></p>
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=ImportHTML("http://bob.com/mytable", "table", 1)=ImportXML("http://backtweets.com/search.xml?itemsperpage=100&...”)=ImportFeed("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=20&page=1&q="&A2)
Spreadsheet formulae
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Fetch Page module Regex
Yahoo! Pipes
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"A problem for sites who want to provide privacy while allowing new users to join easily. Scraping services may constitute a violation of terms of service; tactics often resemble a denial-of-service attack or a security exploit."
Ethics
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Questions?
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Links
OnlineJournalismClasses.tumblr.comDelicious.com/paulb/cityoj08Delicious.com/paulb/datajournalismDelicious.com/paulb/visualisationDelicious.com/paulb/data
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- Use advanced search to find data- Use tools to scrape data- Visualise a politician's speeches using Wordle or Many Eyes- Read up on some of the tools or technologies before the lab
Lab
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Books
Darrell Huff - How To Lie With Statistics Blastland & Dilnot - The Tiger That Isn'tDonna Wong - The WSJ Guide to Information GraphicsBrian Suda - A Practical Guide to Designing with Data
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Assignments
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Enough time?
10 credits = 100 hoursLectures = 15 hoursGroup blog = 60 hours (75%)Strategy = 20 hours (25%)(Some in labs) + 5 hours on other issues
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Enough time? Blog
Just an example:10 posts ranging from simple links to interviews, analysis, experiment5.5 hours ave per week x10 weeks = 55 hours+ 5 hours to write evaluation
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Enough time? Strategy
Just an example:12.5 hours researching community30 mins per week x10 weeks with community (2.5 hours)5 hours analysis & write up
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Group blogs
8 areas:1.Online video; 2. Online audio3. Data; 4. UGC5. Community management6. Mobile; 7. Social media8. Infographics and photography
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Criteria
Ass1: Newsgathering/researchProductionLaw, ethics and strategyAss 2: ResearchAnalysisExecution