10 Things I've Learned About Data Journalism
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Paul Bradshaw presented 10 things he has learned about data journalism at DONA in March 2011. Some of the key lessons included that journalists add value to data by cleaning and connecting it to tell stories; if a task needs to be done repeatedly, have a computer automate it; numeracy and data analysis skills should be valued as highly as traditional literacy in newsrooms; and that data journalism can engage audiences and provide commercial opportunities for news organizations.
10 Things I've Learned About Data Journalism
- 1. #DONAdata Monday, 28 March 2011
- 2. 10 things I’ve learned about data journalism Paul Bradshaw DONA, March 29 2011 Monday, 28 March 2011
- 3. You can never be an expert in data journalism . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 4. Journalists add value to data by compiling, cleaning, connecting . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 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 Monday, 28 March 2011
- 6. If you have to do something twice, get a computer to do it . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 7. “ Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police department’s website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago. - Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock Monday, 28 March 2011
- 8. Numeracy should be as valued by news orgs as literacy (every newsroom should have a statistician) Monday, 28 March 2011
- 9. Context is king . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 10. Visualisation is about taking things away . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 11. Data is a social object . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 12. Data journalism has commercial potential (sticky, engaged, targeted, valuable) Monday, 28 March 2011
- 13. image by The production line has been replaced by a network . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 14. Making power accountable is the first step to holding power to account . Monday, 28 March 2011
- 15. Thank you. For all articles mentioned in this presentation, and image credits go to Delicious.com/paulb/DONAdata Monday, 28 March 2011
- 16. #DONAdata Monday, 28 March 2011