1) Data journalism plays an important role in many types of journalism by helping tell stories through data from sources like Wikileaks files, financial reports, and other datasets. 2) Getting and visualizing data are two important aspects of data journalism - visualizing data helps explain large datasets. 3) While data journalism involves working with numbers, the goal is to use data to tell interesting stories for readers.

1. Data journalism City University Magazine MA 3 March 2011

2. Data matters You may not think data plays a massive role in journalism, but it does. From the Wikileaks files, to financial, political journalism - and even consumer journalism too - data helps you tell stories. Some things are too big for you to explain in words alone Two sides to this: Getting the data and Visualising it (that’s what we do next time)

4. But it’s not about maths It’s about stories

5. http://www.peteraldhous.com/earthquakes.html

6. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/jul/26/ied-afghanistan-war-logs

8. “The new data techniques used in this Guardian investigation begin to tackle the problem: using an automated script coded by ScraperWiki, all the separate all-party register entries are pulled into one document, so the data can be analysed to give a fuller picture.”

9. “the key thing here is to learn how to solve your own problems. Asking a tutor should be your last resort - they will not be there for the rest of your life!

11. filetype:csvto 'comma separated values' spreadsheets;

12. filetype:docto Word documents - often used for internal documents

13. filetype:pdfto PDFs - often used for official reports

15. .ac.uk to UK educational establishments (not all of them reputable) - the US equivalent is .edu

16. .org.uk to (mostly) nonprofit organisations - again, this is not guaranteed. You can also try .org although this will include results from other countries.

17. .mod.uk - the Ministry of Defence

18. .nhs.uk - NHS sites

19. .dh.gov.uk - Department of Health

21. Likewise site:city.ac.uk would only return results from City University's websiteYou can limit your search further by using quotation marks so that only pages containing the exact phrase are returned, e.g. "annual report" You can also expand it by using 'Boolean' operators like OR, e.g. "site:gov.uk OR site:police.uk" Look up 'Boolean operators' to find out other tricks Combine the above to limit your results - e.g. "deaths in police custody filetype:xlssite:gov.uk" Also try to search for 'database' - the contents of databases are 'invisible' to Google so you're looking for the page that allows you to search it. Try other 'operators' such as + before a search term to ensure it is in the pages themselves, e.g. +custody phrases in quotes, e.g. "deaths in custody" The * wildcard, e.g. "deaths in * custody" The ~ operator for synonyms, e.g. ~deaths

24. Googled: filetype:csv music industry

26. Where is it from?

27. Are you sure?

28. What story can you draw from it?

30. Made with Many Eyes

36. Links http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/oct/01/data-journalism-how-to-guide http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/04/21/data-journalism-pt1-finding-data-draft-comments-invited/ http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/07/16/how-to-create-basic-mashups-with-yahoo-pipes/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/learning-how-to-visualize/