Data, interactives and visualizations workship for the CEJ/IBA National Media Conference April 20-22 in Karachi, Pakistan. This presentation was given 6 times over 2 days for 120 journalists travelling from all over Pakistan representing newspapers, radio, tv, websites, blog and reaching from academia to tribal news outlets.

1. DATA, INTERACTIVES &
VISUALIZATIONS
EsraDogramaci @esrad
for CEJ/IBA, Karachi, April 2017

2. What is data journalism?
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3. Any story led by numbers
Reporting facts in a way
that people understand,
about issues that matter
Your role is to bring data to
life - tell the story.

4. But first, who is your audience?

5. Audience analytics
◉ Male/female split
◉ Age
◉ Platform & device
◉ Time spent & format

6. Visualizing data
Examples 2

7. The good ones

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Berliner Morgenpost bus interactive, 2015

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Snowden & NSA: Guardian, 2013

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BBC Sport: Who is your Olympic body match, 2016.

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Axios: Watch the uninsured disappear, 2017.

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AJE: What is the true cost of a Panda? 2017
AJE: What has each president left their successor? 2017

13. The complex

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Flourish Google News Lab Horserace Demo https://public.flourish.studio/story/140/

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Financial Times: Build Your Own
Kraft Heinz Takeover, 2017

16. Sometimes,
‘Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication’ -Leonardo Da Vinci

17. Remember,
there is a fine line between
Impressive + Incomprehensible

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Pudding: Film Dialogue, 2017

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An ode to the barchart: Stijn Debrouwere, 2017

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22. Let’s get started
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23. ◉ Google public data directory
◉ UN Data
◉ UK Polling Report
◉ UNHCR Population Statistics
◉ Police.uk
◉ Statista
◉ UK House Price Index
◉ Data.gov.uk
◉ WikiLeaks
EXAMPLES OF DATA SOURCES
◉ European Data Portal
◉ Data.gov.uk
◉ WikiLeaks
◉ OpenCorporates - Open
Database Of Corporate World
◉ UK Companies House data
◉ Mother Jones (spreadsheet
mass shootings in America)
◉ Election Commission of
Pakistan
◉ Economic Survey of Pakistan
◉ South Asian Terrorism Portal
(SATP)
◉ Annual NGO reports eg. Aurat
Foundation (eg. violence
against women)
◉ Make/find your own

24. TYPES OF VISUALIZATION
Build your own
Info.gram
Quartz Chart Builder
Google (various, eg. Trends)
Maps (various)
Infograph
(picture overlay with text/facts)
Simple graph or
line/bar chart
Interactive graph

25. Over to you
Find a data set,
start to create stories

26. Collections of data/visual examples
Global Editors Network 2016 data journalism awards shortlist
Examples from the BBC
Al Jazeera English
New York Times (and its 2016 Olympics special)
Guardian US

27. THANK YOU & SHOUT OUT
This presentation was put together with ideas & resources from:
Marianne Bouchart
Alia Chughtai
Stijn Debrouwere
Tom Felle
Aron Pilhofer
Simon Rogers
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