From Attention to Trust:  Data-driven journalism and the urban future

From Attention topicnic 2011 Trust How data-driven journalism can help us in the urban future @mirkolorenz Innovation Projects Deutsche Welle

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This presentation proposes a shift ofmedia models: From attention totrust, from guessing to knowing.One group that could use this modelare journalists, by working withavailable data more and better.Data-driven journalism is the processto do that. In this presentation wecover some aspects of why and howthis would be a perspective.- September 2011 3

Three sectionsOld story: How we see the worldNew story: What data can tell us1000 stories: Perspectives 4

old story

You are here

You are hereyour circle of trust

To survive, we rely on: our senses our experienceadvise from family and friends conventional wisdom

For the future,this is not enough

Business?Drive for continually growing profits data analytics business intelligence

BrandsCorporations

Government Statistics BrandsTaxes Marketing Corporations Consumer Mortgages Credit Checks

Government Statistics Brands InternetTaxes Marketing Social Media Corporations Consumer Mortgages Credit Checks

Disparity of access to understandable data enables „modern cheating“ (small and big)

„Small“ examples:Ending a mobile phone subscription Identity theft/phishingCompare costs of products/services Understanding full cost of a loan

Big examples: Subprime crisis Debt crisis Privacy

recent innovation:tracking everyone in real-time

Ask yourself:Who owns your data? Photo: Mirko Lorenz, 2011 (Tekniska museet, Stockholm)

Why is it collected?Where is it stored? Why is it kept? How is it used?

Source: Apple

new story

We need a process to transform data into story DEF: DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM = WORKFLOW

Source: Worldbank

BETTER FILTERS Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

...show the context Source: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful

OPEN DATA

WHY A NEW STORY? FS Michaels: Monoculture. How One Story is Changing Everything, 2011

the GNP measures everything, except that which makes life worthwhile Robert F. Kennedy (1968) Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, March 18, 1968 Link

Go to: guardian.co.uk home Go Search: Entire site SearchNews Sport Comment Culture Business Money Life & style Travel Environment TV Video Community Blogs JobsCROWDSOURCINGInvestigate your MPs expenses: HomeJoin us in digging through the documents of MPs expenses to identify individual claims, ordocuments that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MPsexpenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing. (Update, Fri pm: we now have avirtually complete set of expenses documents so you should be able to find your MPs)Already created an account? Log in here. We have 458,832 pages of documents. 27,241 of you have reviewed Investigate your own MPs documents 221,837 of them. Only 236,995 to go... Enter your postcode: Find your MP Or search by MP name or constituency: Please read our privacy policy to find out how we use your data. You must also read Start reviewing our terms of service. By reviewing pages, you are agreeing that you have read the terms of service, and that you agree to them. Search Most line items added (last 48 hrs)Thanks everyone for your valiant efforts so far. all timeYoure amply justifying our hope that many hands can make light work of the thousands of anon-27236 5 line itemsdocuments released by Parliament in relation to MPs’ expenses. We, and others - perhaps mdouble8 3 line itemsyou? - are still using these tools to review each document, decide whether it containsinteresting information, and extract the key facts. emsilly 2 line itemsSome pages will be covering letters, or claim forms for office stationery. But somewhere inhere is the receipt for a duck island. And who knows what else may turn up. If you find Most pages reviewed (last 48 hrs)something which you think needs further attention, simply hit the button marked “investigate all timethis!” and we’ll take a closer look. dmelda Source: Guardian 22 votesHow to get involved: anon-27236 17 votes

NEW MODELS TO FINANCE THIS

Q: WHAT ARE THE DATA TOOLS FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL THINK ARE INDISPENSABLE?

VISUALISING WHAT AFFECTS US WORLD COUNTRYPEOPLE CITY GROUP OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

VISUALISING WHAT AFFECTS US MEDIA WORLD COUNTRYPEOPLE CITY GROUP OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

Journalists,where do youadd value? Quote Jeff Jarvis

SWITCH IN MEDIA MODELS:FROM ATTENTION TO TRUST

VISUALIZING WHAT IS NOT SENSEABLE _Source: Visual.ly, 2011

TextCHANGING JOURNALISM WORKFLOWS: DATA TO STORY Team Ingest Filter Produce Publish Distribute Measure Rethinking media workflows Vision Cloud Media Use Case

Trustable services

Trustable services Transparent Open Individual No hidden agenda

TO GET THERE:TOOLSTRAININGEXAMPLES

1000stories

THEMOVIE?

ON A GLOWING RECTANGLE NEAR YOUTHEMOVIE? DATA STORY DIGGING DEEPER „Surprisingly helpful“ -- User „Our city is now a better place“ -- Local Authority „It‘s a wonder how we could do without it“ -- Government AN OPEN DATA PRODUCTION

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DISCUSS, ADD, ARGUE?TWITTER: #DDJSome ideas and concepts presented here have received funding from theEuropean Communitys Seventh FrameworkProgramme (FP7/2007-2013)under grant agreement n° 257019 (VISION Cloud)

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