10 Things I've Learned About Data Journalism

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10 things I’ve learned about data journalism Paul Bradshaw DONA, March 29 2011Monday, 28 March 2011

You can never be an expert in data journalism .Monday, 28 March 2011

Journalists add value to data by compiling, cleaning, connecting .Monday, 28 March 2011

“ We cleaned up the data so that we were able to calculate how much grant was being lost over two years, and mapped it with OpenHeatMap. - Paul Gallagher, MENMonday, 28 March 2011

If you have to do something twice, get a computer to do it .Monday, 28 March 2011

“ Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police department’s website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago. - Adrian Holovaty, EveryblockMonday, 28 March 2011

Numeracy should be as valued by news orgs as literacy (every newsroom should have a statistician)Monday, 28 March 2011

Context is king .Monday, 28 March 2011

Visualisation is about taking things away .Monday, 28 March 2011

Data is a social object .Monday, 28 March 2011

Data journalism has commercial potential (sticky, engaged, targeted, valuable)Monday, 28 March 2011

image by The production line has been replaced by a network .Monday, 28 March 2011

Making power accountable is the first step to holding power to account .Monday, 28 March 2011

Thank you. For all articles mentioned in this presentation, and image credits go to Delicious.com/paulb/DONAdataMonday, 28 March 2011

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10 Things I've Learned About Data Journalism

by Paul Bradshaw on Mar 28, 2011

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