DATA JOURNALISM

Dr. Bahareh Heravi Bahareh.Heravi@insight-centre.org

Week 2 Finding Data

The  inverted  pyramid  of  data  journalism  

By Paul Bradshaw

   

TOOLS  

Fusion    Tables  

Anybody can do it!

How?

 Finding  the  data  

Cleaning/fixing  the  data  Analysing  the  data  Visualising  the  data  

+  Wri>ng  the  story  

 FINDING  THE  DATA  

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    

 

CSO  Census  Eurostat  UN  World  Bank  World  Health  Organiza9on  Various  government  department  ...    

 

Official  Data  Providers  

cso.ie  

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

 

Data  Portals  &  Aggregators    

Data Alerts

RSS  Feeds  

 

Data  release  Calendars  

  hEp://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/sta>s>csdueforrelease/  

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

Email  Alerts  

 

ChangeDetec9on.com  

 

SEARCH

AND/OR    “      ”    *    -­‐phrase    Site:.ie    Filetype:xls        Advance  Search  Operators  in  Google:  h\ps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en  h\p://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html  

How  to  best  search?  

   

DATA  SCRAPING  

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

 Ques>ons?  

 

Bahareh  R.  Heravi    

 

 

@Bahareh360    

Bahareh.Heravi@insight-­‐centre.org