Presentation to DONA, Copenhagen

1. #DONAdata
Monday, 28 March 2011

2. 10 things I’ve
learned about data
journalism
Paul Bradshaw
DONA, March 29 2011
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3. You can never be an
expert in data
journalism
.
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4. Journalists add value
to data by compiling,
cleaning, connecting
.
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5. “ We cleaned up the data so
that we were able to calculate
how much grant was being lost
over two years, and mapped it
with OpenHeatMap.
- Paul Gallagher, MEN
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6. If you have to do
something twice, get
a computer to do it
.
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7. “ Each weekday, my computer
program goes to the police
department’s website and
gathers all crimes
reported in Chicago.
- Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock
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8. Numeracy should be
as valued by news
orgs as literacy
(every newsroom should have a statistician)
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9. Context is king
.
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10. Visualisation is about
taking things away
.
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11. Data is a social object
.
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12. Data journalism has
commercial potential
(sticky, engaged, targeted, valuable)
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13. image by
The production line
has been replaced by
a network
.
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14. Making power
accountable is the
first step to holding
power to account .
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15. Thank you.
For all articles mentioned in this presentation, and image
credits go to Delicious.com/paulb/DONAdata
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16. #DONAdata
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