1) Data journalism experienced hype but journalists have little time for failures and cannot rush projects as scientists require thorough testing. 2) Readers may not understand charts and data without context, and bias can be hidden behind scientific claims. 3) Data journalism requires open data, code, processes and peer review in order to build community understanding.

1. Data journalism after hype
@jancibulka

2. Data journalism as a trend
• Hype at Google Search: “data journalism”
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=data%20journalism

3. Data journalism and newsroom pace
• journalist produce few articles per day, #ddj few
per (good) month
• no time for failures and death ends (way to bigger
ones, scientists will tell you)
• outcome known on pitch (unbiased data? not
really)
• gov data obtaining is a long run (no way to throw
away crappy ones)

4. Data journalism and readers
• in many times, charts do not helping, only
illustrating (know readers how to read it?)
• hiding bias and flappy work behind science
• can’t interpret without understanding (what
correlation 0.53 means for reader?)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/do-pulitzers-help-newspapers-keep-readers/

5. Data journalism little bit hard to read
http://data.blog.ihned.cz/c1-60363840-aplikace-jak-daleko-dojedete-prazskou-mhd
!http://zpravy.ihned.cz/politika/c1-60996560-babis-druhy-blizko-je-i-okamura-zemanovci-
by-se-do-snemovny-nedostali
!http://data.blog.ihned.cz/c1-61341380-prepadeni-na-barrandove-drogy-v-holesovicich-
kriminalita-optikou-mobilnich-dat

6. Data journalism and openness
• open data
• open code
• open know-how, process…
• (peer)review. lot of it. (missing community here)

7. To read
• http://towcenter.org/blog/debugging-the-backlash-to-data-journalism/qz.com/
189703/the-problem-with-data-journalism/
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/this-week-in-review-nate-silver-and-data-
journalisms-critics-and-the-roots-of-diversity-problems/
• http://towcenter.org/blog/debugging-the-backlash-to-data-journalism/
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