Moldova data-jouranlism

Data Journalism The up and downs and the futureLisa Evans

What is Data Journalism?

Data journalism is:stripping down the news to the bare factsand relating these facts (sometimes this process creates new news)

Isn’t journalismfact based anyway?

Isn’t that investigative journalism?

Isn’t that research?

Let’s look at the trends (the functions of data journalism)

Q. Accountability A.Where does our money go? Work it out!

what does the government spend money on?

how well our tax"investment" is doing?

owed and owned – debts = return to investors

investment and profits + debts = owned and owed

Accountability

Policy Analysis Prof David MacKay

How does our energy usecompare with energy made? Or

If we had same approach for tuition fee policy … … would this still happen?

B r in g in g t h e d a t a t o lif eH o w c a n p e o p le m a k e s e n s e o f t h is ?

All central government spend over £25,000

Using well-defined facts

Freedom of Information

(add george osborns)

Freedom of Information

(Add Rejection of freedom of information)

Tools we use KEY: Project Miso + D3 Google spreadsheets, fusion, maps Tableau Many eyes Aspic

http://misoproject.com/

http://d3js.org/

How is this data journalism working out? How successful are we?

All UK daily newspapers

How does the Guardian circulation compare to other quality news providers?

Online figures

The datablog and data store isthe second most popular blog on the Guardian website Why? Engagement

The Future

Challenges: The news system is not set up for data journalists(the press officer problem the time to gather and connect information no specialists yet)

Two possible futuresEither:we get quicker and better preparedorwe create news by becoming specialist

Thank you Lisa EvansLisa.Evans@guardian.co.uk @datastore @objectgroup

Moldova data-jouranlism

by lisa-evans on May 15, 2012

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