1. Introduction to Data Journalism
for Financial Reporters and Editors
Peter Verweij
Wits University
Johannesburg Sept 2012
2. An Example
Rating Agencies and
interest rates in EU
countries.
Here is the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/new
3. Numbers in Journalism
Writing a story about
ICT and Economic
development
Internet user In
southern Africa
Google Public data
4. Statistics Matter
Digging deeper:
London Riots
Finding Background
Official Explanation
EU unemployment
Make use of
prepared maps,
graphs, tables: food
prices
5. Traffic Accidents
From Database:
2000 accidents
Top ten
Dangerous junctions
Map is the story
6. What is Data Journalism?
Producing stories truth seeking stories in the
public interest without a legal foundation
FROM A PILE OF DATA
7. Shoot out and licenses
7 dead; 17 wounded
Check the licenses
What do you want to
know?
Methodology:
formulate and
hypothesis
8. Mayors: gender and political party
Appointment of
mayors
Formulate your ideas
first
Test them of the data
Look at the level of
measurement
9. Finding Data
WHERE:
HOW:
National Bureau for
Download
statistics
Copy-paste
NGO's
scraping
Web: find excel
Web: tables
10. Mother of all Data Journalism
Spreadsheets
Ordering data
MS Office: excel
Simple calculations
Open Office for key figures
Graphs
11. Visualize!
ManyEyes
Fusion Tables
Tableau
Qgis
Here are the data for
scraping
12. Data Journalism: team work and
important
IMPORTANT
TEAM WORK
More data
Writer
More use of data for
Researcher
policies
Hacker
Check
Designer
Find hidden trends
13. Thank you!
This is the map for
Saturday Sept 15.
Peter@d3-media.nl