Claire Miller shares tips on data journalism at news:rewired - full stream ahead

1. Data to stories:
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Get data
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Find the story
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Make data understandable
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Publish the data so it can be found and
explored

2. Official data:
Every day data – often summary, large area

3. Mix stories and visualisations
to explain data

4. FOI:
More specific, local, raw data

5. FOI:
A&E use by postcode

6. FOI:
A&E use by postcode

7. Open data:
Lots of data, lots of potential

8. Open data:
Lots of data, lots of potential

9. Open data:

10. Datastore
The datastore acts as a repository
for all the data stories we do.
Some indications people spend
more time looking at data stories:
•
'Bounce Rate' for datastore is
2.8% compared to 18.5% for
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the website (WalesOnline)
on average.
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42.7% of people spent 1-3
minutes looking at datastore
articles, compared to 24.7%
on the main site.

11. People are more likely to visit looking for something specific:

12. Information is useful:
Olympic Torch Route map

13. News apps:
From Welsh Gov’t school bands to comprehensive data

14. Live data:
Ward by ward election results

15. Make it all about rugby*:
*may only work in Wales