Data journalism is changing everything by empowering citizens with open data. In the 2010s, big data will allow citizens to self-organize in new generative ways. A hybrid data future may emerge where open government data, social data, and data scraped or leaked by citizens and journalists creates new watchdogs. Storytelling will still be important as these tools are used to find and tell stories.

1. Data Journalism
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2. We spread the knowledge of
innovators around the world.

3. Technology publishing

4. Integrated media and conferences

5. Online publishing at Radar

8. In the 1990s, government and civil
society spread the Internet globally

9. In the 2000s, mobile phones and social
networking connected us ever more

10. In the 2010s, big data will change
everything again.
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

11. Data powers Web 2.0

12. Open data allows citizens to be
generative in new ways

17. Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

18. Makers and open source hardware

20. A hybrid data future?
• Open government data platforms
• Commercial industry data
• Social data and crisis data
• Citizen and media “scraped” or leaked data
• Edited by civic developers, data journalists and
entrepreneurs as new watchdogs

21. “Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

22. “We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

23. “Trendy but not new”-Simon Rogers,
Guardian

24. “Gov 2.0, FOSS
and agile development
are all breathing new life into
data and journalism”
-David Herzog, Open Missouri

25. Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

27. “Newspapers are either going
to start doing what we do, or
they're going to be bypassed
and out of date.”
-Elliot Jaspin
That was 1986, in Time.

28. More than 166 U.S. newspapers have stopped
putting out a print edition or closed down
altogether since 2008.
There have been more than 35,000 job losses or
buyouts in the newspaper industry since 2007.
Source: Paper Cuts

29. Robo-journalism?

30. Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories.
We use them like we use a telephone.
The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros
USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

32. Source: How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse

33. “Make small things faster, make big things
possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT
TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

38. More than 36 interactive databases published
Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic
[Source: CJR]

39. Resources
• datajournalism.stanford.edu
• opendatamanual.org
• How the Guardian does data journalism
• 5 tips for getting started with data journalism
• datadrivenjournalism.net

40. Find me:
Alex@oreilly.com
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