wits dataj intro
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Introduction to Data Journalism
Peter Verweij
Wits University
Johannesburg Aug 27
An example: Olympic Rankings
Lessons Official Ranking Other Factors:
Population, GDP, Team
Corrected Ranking
Numbers in Journalism
Writing a story about ICT and Economic development
Internet user In southern Africa
Google Public data
Statistics Matter
Digging deeper Finding Background Official Explanation
Traffic Accidents
From Database: 2000 accidents
Top ten Dangerous junctions Map is the story
What is Data Journalism?
Producing stories truth seeking stories in the public interest without a legal foundation
FROM A PILE OF DATA
Shoot out and licenses
7 dead; 17 wounded Check the licenses What do you want to
know? Methodology:
formulate and hypothesis
Mayors: gender and political party
Appointment of mayors
Formulate your ideas first
Test them of the data Look at the level of
measurement
Finding Data
WHERE: National Bureau for
statistics NGO's Web: find excel Web: tables
HOW: Download Copy-paste scraping
Mother of all Data Journalism
Spreadsheets MS Office: excel Open Office
Ordering data Simple calculations
for key figures Graphs
Visualize!
ManyEyes Fusion Tables Tableau Qgis
Data Journalism: team work and important
IMPORTANT More data More use of data for
policies Check Find hidden trends
TEAM WORK Writer Researcher Hacker Designer
