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INTRODUCTION TO
DATA JOURNALISM
Faisal Karimi
School of Media and Design
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Information Visualization Course
Prof. Alex Ivanov, PhD
April, 2018
www.FaisalKarimi.com

• What is data journalism?
• Data and journalism
• Data journalism Process
• Data Journalism Continuum
• Why Should journalists use data?
• Data journalism team
• Data journalism Tools
• Some Example

Precision journalism
Computer-assisted
reporting
Analytic journalism
Data journalism
Data-driven
journalism
Database journalism
Computational journalism
Different Names

Data journalism story elements

What Is Data Journalism?
Telling stories with data – data as a source!

“Data Journalism is telling stories that are based on
concrete data. Even though it is not something new and
journalists have been reporting using data for quite some
time, recent technological advancements have made it
easier to do data journalism using a plethora of new open
source tools available to us all.” – Data Journalism Handbook

Data journalism is a journalism specialty reflecting the
increased role that numerical data is used in the production
and distribution of information in the digital era. It reflects
the increased interaction between content producers
(journalist) and several other fields such as design,
computer science and statistics.
www.poynter.org
Data journalism can help a journalist tell a complex story
through engaging infographics.

Data Journalism Includes:
Deploying computer-assisted reporting or analysis for
writing journalistic stories »
Practicing precision journalism, as introduced by Philip
Meyer, including the use of social science research
methods in the interest of journalism »
Visualizing data—mapping and charting—for use in
exploration and analysis »
Programming to obtain and analyze data for writing
journalistic stories

• Journalism done with data,
• New possibilities that open up when you combine the
traditional ‘nose for news’ and ability to tell a compelling
story, with the sheer scale and range of digital information
now available,
• Can help explain how a story relates to an individual
• Data can be the source of data journalism, or it can be the
tool with which the story is told — or it can be both.
What is Data Journalism?

WHY DATA JOURNALISM?
“Data-driven
Journalism is the
future, Journalists need
to be data-savvy.”
-Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World: Wide Web
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ media/2010/n

“Data journalism is simply, journalism.
...ultimately, it is just a way of describing journalism in
the modern world.”
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/explainers/what-is-data-journalism

Investigative research
Statistics
Design
Programming
WHAT IS DATA JOURNALISM?

Data and journalism
Data journalism roughly divides into three broad types that
often overlap:
1. Traditional investigative data journalism, finding stories in
the data – with or without visualizations.
2. Using the data to tell a story or explain a complex
problem – this will involve graphics or ‘visualizations’
3. Providing a service or a tool that tells the reader
something personally relevant - school score cards / tables
or simple financial tools and calculators

Data Journalism Process

Data Journalism Process
• Finding the data
• Cleaning/fixing the data
• Analyzing the data
• Visualizing the data + Writing the story

Data Journalism Continuum

Data visualization
specialist
Computer-assisted
reporter
News applications
developer
The 3 dimensions of data journalism

Data Journalism as it is
known now is just over 7
years old.
BUT
It has its roots in Computer
Assisted reporting (CAR),
which goes back to 1960s.
Data Journalism Perspectives

Around 2010- 2011 data journalism was a buzz concept
which raised discussion among journalists, researchers and
media executives.
The Guardian, The New York Times were showing the way.
First introductory courses in data journalism were arranged
in universities and some other institutions.
August 2010 – one of 1st data journalism conferences in
Amsterdam
Data Journalism Perspectives

Role of Data Journalists:
Beautification!
& Storytelling

The inverted pyramid of data journalism
By Paul Bradshaw

Data journalism team
• You!
• Other reporters
• Editors
• Graphic artists
• Photographers
• Videographers
• Page designers
• Web designers
• App developers

• Fusion Tables
• Tableau Public
• Google Spreadsheet Charts
• ManyEyes
• Color Brewer
• Chartsbin
• iCharts
• GeoCommons
• Piktochart.com
Top tools

• Offers full datasets from behind news stories
• Now consists of a front page (guardian.co.uk/data);
• searches of world government and global development
data;
• data visualizations from around the web and Guardian
graphic artists, and tools for exploring public spending data
Guardian datablog

Examples of Data Journalism
projects in newsrooms

Examples :Government Employee Salary Database

Do No Harm in the Las Vegas Sun

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