#MIGRANTSFILEShttp://dtnj.it/tmf-en

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DATANINJA.IT/ABOUTUSDataninjaisadatajournalismnetworkfoundedin2012

Ouraimistotellstoriesfromdataanalysis,theso-called

WedealwithjournalismandteachingtogetherwiththemainItalianeditorialgroupsandthemoreadvancedpublicadministrationsonOpenDatatopics.

THECONTEXT:INFORMATIONSONTHEWEB

Fromthedawnofcivilizationuntil2003,humankindgeneratedfiveexabytesofdata.Nowweproducefiveexabyteseverytwo

days…andthepaceisaccelerating!

EricSchmidt,Google’sexecutivechairman| http://goo.gl/pgle3G

WHYDATAVISUALIZATION?

Asithadneverhappenedinourlives,todaywehaveaccesstotonsoffreeinformation

andforfree.Withtherighttoolswecanbegintomakesenseofthesedatatosee

patternsandtrendsthatotherwisewouldbeinvisibletous.Transformingnumbersin

graphicformallowsreaderstolearnaboutthestoriesthatthosenumbershiding.

AlbertoCairo,"ThefunctionalArt"|Source:http://goo.gl/KHm3hT

THEINVESTIGATIONOFL'ESPRESSO

simultaneouslyon9newspapersinsixEuropeancountriesinMarch31,2014

THENEWS

FROM2000TO2013MORETHAN23THOUSANDSOFMIGRANTSHAVEDIEDTRYINGTOREACHEUROPE

ROUTES

EIGHTROUTESOFENTRY

ROUTESMORTALITYItwaspossibletoestimateamortalityrateofeachroute:calculationshowsthatthemostcriticalonestartsfromthe

MaghrebtowardsSicily

1.DATA

INVESTIGATIONBASISofficialmonitoringforvictims(neitherbyItaly,norby

EuropeanUnion)

TwoEUagenciesmonitorfrontiers(Frontex,Eurosur)

datasetsbasedonarticlesandpostsfrommedia,observatoriesandblogsbuiltbyNGOs(FortressEurope,UnitedforInterculturalAction,PULSdell'universitàdiHelsinki)

studiesandanalysisregardingspecificterritories(Sicilia,Canarie)ortimeintervals(asingleyear,aseason)

FORTRESSEUROPEscrapeddatafromtheFortressEuropewebsite.

UNITEDFORINTERCULTURALACTION/PULS

scrapedandcollecteddatafrom UnitedforInterculturalActionePULSwebsites

SCRAPING/MERGING/DEDUPLICATIONTheseareallactivitiesnecessarytoextractdatafromtheiroriginalrigidcontainers(webpagesandPDFs),tostructurethemastablesandsotomakethemmachinereadable

Originaldifferentstructuresareadaptedtohaveasingleusefulone(date/location/description/source/...)

Wehavefinallyaggregatedalldatainasingletableandcleaneditdeletingdoubleeventsthankstoasemiautomaticdeduplicationprocess

NEWDATABASEItcontains2700+events(duringwhich 23000+migrantsdied

from2000to2013)anditisbrowsable

http://themigrantsfiles.com

ENTITYEXTRACTIONSingleevents(ie.shipwrecks)areputinrelationsbyextracting

entities(ie.events'typologies,locations,victims'types)Link:http://goo.gl/xy0h0Q

2.TEAM

TEAMPLAYTheinvestigationwasperformedby10peopleamongjournalists,datascientists,developersandmore,thankstoanon-lineshared

platform.

ROLESANDMETHODOLOGYA coordinatedthewholeprocessandcheckedprogress

searchedfordataandcontextualinformationsandfactcheckedthem,alsowithasampletestingstrategy(fact-checking)

triedtoprovideanerrorestimationofthedatamanipulationprocess(about )

METHODOLOGYONL'ESPRESSOBelowthearticlepublishedonL'Espressothereisalsoa

methodologicalnotewithcontacts|Link:http://goo.gl/9gpvlA

FACT-CHECKINGATTHEUNIVERSITYSomestudentsindigitaljournalismattheUniversityofBolognahelpedustochecksingleevents(thankstoprof.CarloGubitosa)

3.RESULTS

MARCH31,2014:THEPUBLICATIONDAYTheinvestigationwaspublishedsimultaneouslyon9newspapers

from6differentEuropeancountries,creatingawidespreaddistributionineachcountry

IMPACTDuring24h,2000+tweetsin11differentlanguagesaresent

MainlyEnglish,French,Italian,German,SpanishandGreek

|http://goo.gl/cTZyqq

AWARDS:BRUSSELSANDBARCELONATheinvestigationwaspresentedattheDataHarvest+ConferenceinBrusselsandwontheDataJournalismAwardsinBarcelona

(June2014)

VIDEO

#migrantsfiles:http://vimeo.com/97210043