Data Journalism lecture - Week 2: Finding Data Lecture date: 16 Sep 2015 MA in Journalism National University of Ireland, Galway Title slide image from The Data Journalism Handbook

1. DATA
JOURNALISM
Dr. Bahareh Heravi
Bahareh.Heravi@insight-centre.org
Week 2
Finding Data

3. The
inverted
pyramid
of
data
journalism
By Paul Bradshaw

4.
TOOLS

5. Fusion
Tables

6. Anybody can do it!

8. How?

9.
Finding
the
data
Cleaning/fixing
the
data
Analysing
the
data
Visualising
the
data
+
Wri>ng
the
story

10.
FINDING
THE
DATA

11. Official
Sta9s9cs
centers
and
organisa9ons
(Open)
Data
portals
Contac9ng
the
data
provider
and
asking
for
data
Freedom
Of
Informa9on
(FOI)
request
Programming/APIs
Data
Scraping
Crowdsourcing/Collec9ng
the
data

12. CSO
Census
Eurostat
UN
World
Bank
World
Health
Organiza9on
Various
government
department
...
Official
Data
Providers

13. cso.ie

14. Dublinked.ie
Data.gov.ie
Data.gov.uk
NYC
Open
data
…
Gapminder
Guardian
Data
store
Irish
Times
Databank
…
Data
Portals
&
Aggregators

16. Data Alerts

17. RSS
Feeds

18. Data
release
Calendars
hEp://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/sta>s>csdueforrelease/

19. hEp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/news/release-­‐calendar

20. Email
Alerts

21. ChangeDetec9on.com

22. SEARCH

23. AND/OR
“
”
*
-­‐phrase
Site:.ie
Filetype:xls
Advance
Search
Operators
in
Google:
hps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
hp://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
How
to
best
search?

24.
DATA
SCRAPING

27. =ImportHTML(“URL”,
“query:
table
or
list”,
index)

34.
Ques>ons?
Bahareh
R.
Heravi
@Bahareh360
Bahareh.Heravi@insight-­‐centre.org