Quick one hour presentation and workshop on data journalism to students at UWE Bristol, November 2012

1. Data journalism
HEIST
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2. THE PLAN:
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3. GETTING IN
1. Data.gov.uk
2. ONS
3. WDTK/FOI
Task: find local/specialist sources, e.g. regulators, disclosure
logs, set up alerts e.g. Change Detection
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4. GETTING IN
1. site:gov.uk
2. filetype:xls
3. “exact phrase”
Task: find key contextual datasets, e.g. school addresses;
regional populations; codes
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5. FLOORPLAN 1:
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6. GET IN QUICK:
Find data for local council
expenditure over £500
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7. FLOORPLAN 2:
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8. 2. THE TOP LINE:
1. Top of the flops/pops
2. Unusual entry/change
3. Fact check
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9. 3. PIVOT TABLES:
1. Data > Pivot table report
2. Rows: your focus
3. Values: your count/sum/etc.
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10. 4. FILTER:
1. Create mini table on same
sheet with key headings
2. Use * wildcard
3. Data > Advanced filter
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11. FILTERS:
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12. FILTERS:
MegaMart AND Cookies AND >500
MegaMart OR Cookies OR >500
MegaMart AND Cookies
OR Cookies AND >500
from http://www.contextures.com/xladvfilter01.html
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13. 5. THE CLEAN-UP:
1. Other data only hidden
2. Copy filtered data and paste
into new sheet
3. Generate new pivot table
from that
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14. PIVOT FILTER:
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15. PIVOT FILTER:
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16. NO ONE GETS HURT.
http://exzuberant.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/its-trigonometry-jim-but-not-as-we-know.html
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17. 5. THE GETAWAY
1. Text data? Wordle, Tagxedo
2. Numbers? Charts
3. Geo? Fusion Tables,
BatchGeo
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18. THE GETAWAY:
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19. NO ONE GETS HURT.
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20. NO ONE GETS HURT?
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21. @PAULBRADSHAW
ONLINEJOURNALISMBLOG.COM
HELPMEINVESTIGATE.COM
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