Investigative reporting: 2nd place- Haggai Matsiko and Ian Katusiime, The Independent
Web and Database Tools : Investigative Reporting
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Web and Database Tools:Investigative Reporting
Steven Rich, IRE and DocumentCloud@thestevenrich
#SABEW #drillingdeep
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SYW
• Show Your Work
• Data is not a dirty word
• People want to see documents
• Readers love interactivity
• Journalists as gatekeepers still exists but...
• We need a wider gate, especially with investigative pieces
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Investigating the Energy Industry
• Must read: “The History of the Standard Oil Company” by Ida Tarbell
• Ida only used words, but who knows what she'd do now?
• If you have the tools, use them
• It's a complicated subject
• If you don't use it (tools)
• You risk losing it (readers)
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Types of Tools
• Audio, Photo and Video
• Document Presentation
• Web Scraping
• Data Wrangling
• Database Managers
• Data Visualization
• Mapping
• Advanced → DIY
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The best things in life
ARE FREE
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Audio, Photo and Video
• Audioo Audacity
• Photoo Gimp
• Videoo iMovieo Open Movie Editor
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Google•Advanced Search• Insights for Search•Trends•Public Data Explorer•Google Fusion•Always coming out with more
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DocumentCloud
• Upload your documents
• Analyze, annotate and publish
• Turn your documents into data
• Used in newsrooms across the world
• See others' documents
• Request an account today: free
• Request an account any other time: free
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Data Wrangling
• Just because someone gives you data, it doesn't mean it's clean
• If it's not, there are solutions
• Mr. People
• Google Refine
• Mr. Data Converter
• CSV to HTML
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Database Managers
• SQLiteo SQLiteMan
• MySQL
• Libre Office (Calc)
• PostgreSQL
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Web Scraping
• There's a lot of data out there, but it's not always easy to get
• Always easier to ask for data than to scrape it
• Scraping is good for constantly updating data
• Make friends with your developers
• Does require some programming language
• But Google can help
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Mapping/Data Viz
• The energy industry affects many
• Mapping helps answer “so what?” for more
• Google Fusion
• It'll do the trick, but if you want personalization
• Cloudmade/Leaflet
• Mapstraction
• Tableau Public
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Advanced
• Looking to customize user experience?
• Like to play around with code?
• APIs
• Django CMS
• Ruby on Rails
• Github