Open Data in the Newsroom: What's the story? (Talk from OK Con 2011 in Berlin)

OKCON 2011OPEN DATA IN THE NEWSROOMWHAT‘S THESTORY?Mirko Lorenz • Information Architect/Journalist • Deutsche Welle/Innovation ProjectsJune 30, 2011 • Kalkscheune Berlin

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WELCOME.IF YOU ARE NEW, THIS IS THE CONTEXTThis is a presentation from at OK Con 2011 in Berlin.The topic is „data-driven journalism“ (DDJ).Our idea of data-driven journalism is to view the analysis ofdata as a rich source for good stories.Data-driven journalism is inclusive, meaning that other forms ofjournalism (investigative, computer-assisted reporting) aresurely part of the broader quest to find ways for relevant,insightful journalism in a world driven by data.Plus, we hope that by adding data to the newsroom there willbe new models to finance journalism. And why not, if the storyis good.Data-driven journalism @ Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_driven_journalism

ME: TURNEDJOURNALISTINFORMATION ARCHITECTFOCUS: TURNING IDEAS INTOPLATFORMS, WORKFLOWS, STORIESWORKING@DEUTSCHE WELLEINNOVATION PROJECTSJOURNALISM TRAINER

DATA IN THE NEWSROOM?

DATA IN THE NEWSROOM?NOW: OPEN DATA IS A WINNER

DATA IN THE NEWSROOM?NOW: OPEN DATA IS A WINNERNEXT: CHALLENGES AHEAD

DATA IN THE NEWSROOM?NOW: OPEN DATA IS A WINNERNEXT: CHALLENGES AHEADFUTURE: PATTERN CHANGE?

#1:OPEN DATA IS A WINNER

WE ALLNEED THEDATA

THE IDEA ACCEPTED ON HIGH LEVELS

DATA INSIGHTS FOR EVERYONE? WORLD COUNTRYPEOPLE CITY GROUP OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

DATA INSIGHTS FOR EVERYONE? MEDIA WORLD COUNTRYPEOPLE CITY GROUP OPEN + NOT-SO-OPEN DATA

#2:DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM: WHY BOTHER?

OBSERVATIONS:MUCH PROGRESS LAST YEARSIMON ROGERS IS AN OUTLIERNEED TO TRAIN JOURNALISTSWHAT ARE LONG-TERM GOALS?

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

CHALLENGES: DIRTY DATA DATA NEEDS STORY CREATING A NEW „CAMERA“

HOW DIRTY IS THE DATA?Tar Sands of Alberta. Image: Some rights reserved by NWFblogs

HOW DIRTY IS THE DATA? EXTRACTING MEANING FROM DATA WILL BE HARD WORK WON‘T COME AT ZERO-COST OR WITHOUT UNWANTED EFFECTSTar Sands of Alberta. Image: Some rights reserved by NWFblogs

NOT ALL DATA-SETS CREATED EQUAL INCOMPLETE WRONG FOCUS COMPETITION WRONG FORMAT CREATED FOR DIRTY Text MARKETING, MISTAKES DATA NOT INSIGHTS WHEN COLLECTED INTENTIONALLY FORGED INSIGHTS KEPT SECRET

Journalists,where do youadd value? - Jeff Jarvis

DATA + STORY = VALUE TO PUBLIC

DATA + STORY: EXAMPLE Source: Information is Beautiful, by David McCandless

A „NEW CAMERA“ TO VIEW THE WORLD Source: Information is Beautiful, by David McCandless, quoted from talk of David in Brussels @ Visualizing Europe, 2011

DATA + STORY„NEVER COMING HOME“ Source: http://mediastorm.com//publication/never-coming-home

#3:WHAT‘S KEEPING US?BARRIERS FOR DATA JOURNALISM

REBUILDING THE NEWSROOM -WHY AND HOW?

TODAY‘S MEDIA MODELS Print Web Blogs * iPad Mobile Most media companies still think of data and digital formats as an extension, not as the foundation. *Blogs are red, because most media did not get the idea

FROM SINGLE STORIES...

...TO DATA-BASED CONTEXT

DATA AS A FOUNDATIONDatabase Web Print Overview Article Depth Articles Crime Maps Dossier Competency Background Data Statistics Context Relevance Analysis Audio Trustability Photo Video

SITUATION OF JOURNALISTS

MOST JOURNALIST‘S SITUATION NO ACCESS TO FAILING SERVER MODELS NO SUPPORT RISING NO TextWORKLOAD TRAINING TOO MANY DATA TOOLS TIME PRESSURE OLD-SCHOOL CMS

STRANGE TIMES:LAY-OFFS IN NEWSROOMS VS.TALENT SHORTAGE IN DIGITALBUSINESS

#4:DEVELOPING THE FIELD

WHAT ARE THE TRAINING NEEDS?

WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD WORKFLOW? A workflow for video and data journalism using next-gen cloud storage Team Ingestion Filter Produce Publish Distribute Popularity Goals Teamwork vs. one-man-show Enabling use of data in newsrooms Workflow as driver of value, better integration Note: Deutsche Welle is a partner in this EU-project. Website here: http://www.visioncloud.eu Visualization inspired by „A Web Site Designed“, created by John Furness of Simple Square

WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD WORKFLOW? VISION Cloud Media Use Case A workflow for video and data journalism using next-gen cloud storage Team Ingestion Filter Produce Publish Distribute Popularity Goals Teamwork vs. one-man-show Enabling use of data in newsrooms Workflow as driver of value, better integration Note: Deutsche Welle is a partner in this EU-project. Website here: http://www.visioncloud.eu Visualization inspired by „A Web Site Designed“, created by John Furness of Simple Square

TextWHAT ARE THE STEPS?Team Ingest Filter Produce Publish Distribute Measure Note: Deutsche Welle is a partner in this EU-project. Website here: http://www.visioncloud.eu Visualization inspired by „A Web Site Designed“, created by John Furness of Simple Square

SMART INTERACTION Scraperwiki Open Calais Video editing Data Visualization Tools Story Presentation Multi-platform Collecting STORLETS Needlebase Google Refine Final Cut R Studio Storify Wordpress Distribution usage data over time, Protovis Document Cloud Memolane File Conversion based on & APIs Fullstory Flash files, not pages Gapminder Other CMS in use HTML5 iTunes VIDEO/DATA VIDEO/DATA PRODUCTION WITH TEAMS iPod FILTERING INGESTION Android METADATA SET-UP Nokia TEAM RIMPROJECT NAME Team Ingestion Filter/Metadata Produce video oder data story Publish Multi-platform distribution Popularity FIND SNIPPETS OF VIDEO/DATA FOR RE-USE ING F RAIS TION O C NAL DAT STORAGE TRA E ) ATIO A MO ABS TORAG SULES ADVANCED CAPABILITIES FOR CLOUD-BASED STOR PUT GE COM ORA FED BILITY A ACCESS S AC AP AGE ST ERA TION ND RIGHTS DAT (M ETA SECURITY CLOUD PURE STORAGE LAYER - KEEPING FILES AND VERSIONS OF FILES OVER TIME Visualization inspired by „A Web Site Designed“, created by John Furness of Simple Square

#5:PATTERN CHANGE

Q: PATTERN CHANGE? A: LOOKING INTO THE DATA, USING WHAT WE FIND FOR GOOD PURPOSESCAN RESULT IN A BIG SHIFT OF POWER

QUIZ:WHAT ARE AR THE INSIGHTS &TOOLS FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL THINK ARE OBVIOUS?

WHAT CAN BE DONE? (MOST EXAMPLES ON THIS PAGE ARE LINKED)SURPRISECLARITYTRUST

#HOPE:MEDIA COMPANIES BECOMINGTRUSTED DATA HUBS

THE FUTURE: INSTANT CLARITY BEFORE WE MAKE DECISIONS Source: Visua.ly

FINALLY: THE CALL TO ACTION(1) LET‘S WORK TOGETHER(2) DEVELOPERS/JOURNALISTS/VISUALIZERS(3) SMALL TEAMS CAN ROCK THIS PLACE

Caution: There’s no standardcareer path to become a deconstructor of wrongnessQuote from David H. Freedmann, „Wrong“, Review of Book http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/excerpt-wrong.html

THANK YOU!Brian Storm Simon Rogers Walter Mossberg Rafat Ali Ariana HuffingtonAron Pilhofer Jeff Jarvis Nicolas Kayser-Bril Michelle Minkoff Mercedes BunzMathias Eberl Lorenz Matzat Tracy Boyer Paul Bradshaw Amanda Cox

HOUSEKEEPING: HOW TO CONNECTTwitter: #ddjPlease use this hashtag for „data-driven journalism“ - it‘s nicely shortSurvey:The survey to ﬁnd out about training needs for data journalists is still open(as of July 2011)http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/data_journalismData-driven journalism group @ EJC+150 people discussing and developing.http://community.ejc.net/group/datadrivenjournalismData-driven journalism websitehttp://datadrivenjournalism.net/My website:http://www.mirkolorenz.com

IDEAS, DISCUSSION, ARGUE?TWITTER: #DDJ@MIRKOLORENZSome 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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