At Data Journalism UK 2016 Andy Dickinson provided an insight into the ways that data journalism is being used at a hyperlocal level. Here are his slides.

1. HYPERLOCAL DATA
JOURNALISM
ANDY DICKINSON
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE

2. THE MEDIA MILL
PROJECT
The Media Mill project aims to drive the development of open
source, open data platforms in Leeds and York; enable
collaboration between all partners to identify ways that local
data can be transformed into media experiences (with an
emphasis on mobile) that have value for citizens; and support
research into the various business propositions that surround
the project with a view to sustaining a thriving hyperlocal media
ecology for the city-region.

3. OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
“Public Sector information that has been made available to
the public as open data”
“Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and
shared by anyone for any purpose”
http://opendefinition.org/
Open Data White Paper: Unleashing the potential

4. OPEN DATA VALUE
CHAIN
- civic innovation
- better engagement
- better accountability
- better transparency
- social and economic innovation
£

10. HYPERLOCAL DATA JOURNALISM
a community driven, civically informed process of creating,
developing and exploiting social and economic value at a local
level through the use of open government data and the enabling
processes of data journalism.

11. HYPERLOCAL DATA
JOURNALISM
- Technical
- Urban bias
- Access to data
- Building & scaling best practice
- Measuring social & democratic
impact

12. URBSMEDIA
There are a lot of very simple, easy to understand numbers out there that no
one has used as a source of information. Within them are not huge smoking
guns about power and corruption but just some interesting facts about the way
we are, who we are, where we live and how we live. It is almost low hanging
fruit that a more traditional data journalist who is highly investigatory focused
would just walk past and ignore as being not interesting enough. I think there is
a consumer interest in doing that.
(Rogers.2015a)

13. ANDY DICKINSON
asdickinson@uclan.ac.uk
@digidickinson
http://www.mediamillproject.uk/
http://www.mysolomon.co.uk/
https://github.com/hebeworks/Solomon
https://datamillnorth.org/
https://www.yorkopendata.org/

14. MediaMill Project
Media Innovation Studio
2016
bit.ly/2fWcENU

15. PROVOCATIONS

16. OPEN?
TRANSPARENCY
ACCOUNTABILITY
ENGAGEMENT
PARTICIPATION

17. ARE YOU TALKING
ABOUT OPEN DATA,
OPEN GOVERNMENT
OR FOI(A)?

18. ARE YOU MAKING
YOUR DATA OPEN?

19. CAN YOU HELP YOUR
COMMUNITY TO USE
THEIR DATA?

20. HOW DO YOU KNOW
DATA JOURNALISM
REALLY WORKS?

21. ALTRUISTIC
DATA JOURNALISM
SUPER-INDIES