An ODC Introduction to Data Jounalism, for BarCamp Sihanoukville 2013.

2. Agenda
• What is data journalism?
• What makes data journalism different?
• Examples of data journalism conducted by news agencies or citizen
journalists.
• Open data, open data Journalism.
• Useful resources on the ODC website.
• Who (including journalists) have used resources on ODC?
• Data-driven journalism opportunity, January 2014
• Q&A

3. What Is Data Journalism?
“Data Journalism is telling stories that are based on concrete data. Even
though it is not something new and journalists have been reporting using
data for quite some time, recent technological advancements have made it
easier to do data journalism using a plethora of new open source tools
available to us all.” – Data Journalism Handbook
Read Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?

4. What Makes Data Journalism Different?
• New possibilities that open up
when you combine the
traditional ‘nose for news’ and
ability to tell a compelling story,
with the sheer scale and range
of digital information now
available.
• Possibilities can come at any
stage of the journalist’s process.
Modeled by Mirko Lorenz, DW
See Data Journalism Process

5. Example
Using software to find connections
between hundreds of thousands of
documents, as The Telegraph did with
MPs' expenses.
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Investigate your MP’s Expenses (The Guardian)
Opening up the news gathering
process itself, as The Guardian do so
successfully in sharing data, context,
and questions with their Datablog
(also MP’s expenses).

6. Example
Telling a complex story through
engaging infographics.
Hans Rosling’s spectacular talks on
visualizing world poverty with
Gapminder, for example, have
attracted millions of views across
the world.
Download Gap Minder World,
materials and tools
Watch ‘New Insights on Poverty’

7. Example
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending,
media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease
out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to
navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
Interactive Infographic
Watch his TED talk

8. Example

9. Example
Using programming to
automate the process of
gathering and combining
information from local
government, police, and
other civic sources, as Adrian
Holovaty did with
ChicagoCrime and then
EveryBlock (now closed).

10. Suggested Readings
Case Studies from the News Rooms:
The ABC’s Data Journalism Play
Data Journalism at the BBC
How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works
Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
Data Journalism at the Zeit Online
How to Hire a Hacker Harnessing External Expertise
Through Hackthons
• Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration Our
Stories Come As Code
• Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-finished Content for Stakeholder
Groups
• Business Models for Data Journalism
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Journalism

12. ODC’s Key Features
 Interactive maps/ Geo-server
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Land-sat images
Topographical map
Topical maps
Base-map for ‘Make Your Own Maps Kit”
 Census information
 Daily summary of news from diverse local and
international sources
 Briefing papers on various policies, sectors, etc.
 Laws and regulations
 Online library of reports and other publications

13. Maps
• Interactive layers
• Data sources provided

14. Census
• Census 1998
• Census 2008
• Economic Census 2011

15. Online library
Tons of publications and reports

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Website: www.OpenDevCam.net
Twitter: @OpenDevCam
Facebook: OpenDevCam
E-mail: contact@opendevcam.net

18. Who Are Using
And Resources Provided On ODC?

19. Journalists
• Think of Cambodia before you add sugar to your coffee - The
Guardian.
• As the Internet Raises Civic Voices In Cambodia, a Struggle Brews Over
Net Control – TechPresident
• DATA JOURNALISME - Open Developpement Cambodia : les
développeurs du développement - Lepetit Journal
• Development and Its Discontent – International OpEd – The New York
Time. (Julia Wallace is a managing editor of The Cambodia Daily.)

20. NGOs
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human
Rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedhi - UNOHCHR (September
24, 2012)
• Global Capital, Local Concessions: A Data-Driven Examination of
Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging
Market Economies, Rights and Resources Institute, The
Munden Project Ltd, 2013
• Suggested Resources, Mekong River Commission
• The Land Matrix, International Land Coalition

21. Bloggers
• Lies, Damn Lies and Maps – on Manago Map
• Hatred of ‘the Other’: Cambodia, Racism and Ultra Nationalism, by Jeff
Mudrick (November 05, 2013) - on Khmer440

22. Businesses
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Broad Gate Plantations – Economic
Land Concessions
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Euro Camlux Invest Co., LTD. (E.C.I)
Cambodia – Investment
Opportunities
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B2B Magazines – news summaries
referral and site referral on the
annual magazines.
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SNL Metal Economics Group –
Mining Data: Currently cover
Canada, Australia, Brazil, and
Tanzania and is continuously
adding countries to the map. ODC
mining data will be visualized on
SNL interactive map soon.

23. What Will You Do With
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24. Data-driven Journalism Training
• When: January 20 – 31, 2014
• Where: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Trainers:
Mirko Lorenz Andreas Giefer Wilfred Runde
• Participants: Cambodian journalists, citizen journalists, IT
or social media specialists, journalism students and
journalism trainers.

25. Data-driven Journalism Training
BENEFITS:
• learn how to use social media, publicly
available data sources and digital data
journalism tools professionally;
• find, filter and visualize data relevant to
their reporting;
• employ data-journalism instruments to
increase the impact of their journalistic or
human rights work.

26. Data-driven Journalism Training
APPLICATIONS REQUIREMENTS:
• Be a citizen of Cambodia;
• Work as a journalist, citizen journalist, IT- or
social media specialist
with 2 – 10 years of professional experience
or be a journalism student or trainer;
• Show strong interest in data-driven journalism;
• Bring a lap-top or tablet computer;
• Have excellent knowledge of English.

27. Data-driven Journalism Training
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
• 1 Call for Applications
• 2 Project Outline
• 3 Application Form
• 4 Employers Declaration Form
MORE INFO:
http://onmedia.dw-akademie.de/english/?p=16645
http://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/blog_page/

28. Thank You!