Data journalism in the second machine age
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Data journalism has a long history but is increasingly important as algorithms and data play a larger role. Newspapers have used data for centuries, and tools like calculators, mainframes, spreadsheets and databases helped early computer-assisted reporting. Today, data journalism uses online tools to gather, clean, analyze and visualize data to support investigative reporting. Emerging trends include using open data to monitor issues like corruption, using sensors and drones to collect real-time data, and ensuring accountability and transparency around the use of personalized data and predictive algorithms. When combined with responsive institutions, data journalism can help drive social change.
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Data journalism in the second machine age
- 1. Data Journalism in the Second Machine Age On Networked Transparency, Algorithms and Accountability Alexander B. Howard Tow Fellow, Columbia University March 17, 2014
- 2. What is the role of the Fourth Estate in holding the use of algorithms and data accountable?
- 4. Newspapers have used data for centuries Source: The Guardian
- 5. 1960s: computer-assisted reporting (CAR) Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066
- 6. Traditional tools applying tech to journalism… • Calculators and Graphs • Mainframe and PCs • Spreadsheets • Databases • Text and code editors • Statistics • Programming
- 7. 2010: “Data-driven journalism is the future” Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian
- 8. …combined with new tools & context… • Online spreadsheets and wikis • Data visualization tools • Open source frameworks • Code sharing • Agile development • Cloud storage and processing (EC2 &Heroku) • More data and more access • Privacy and security riskss
- 9. 2014: data journalism is the present Gathering, cleaning, organizing, analyzing, visualizing and publishing data to support the creation of acts of journalism
- 11. Trendy but not new • The collection, protection and interrogation of data as a source, complementing traditional “shoe leather” investigative reporting relying on witnesses, experts and authorities
- 12. Dollars for Docs
- 13. A tangled web
- 16. More than 36 interactive databases published Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic [Source: CJR]
- 17. La Nacion
- 19. Center for Public Integrity
- 20. Emerging trends
- 21. Networked reporting of corruption ICIJ: Offshore Leaks
- 22. “If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and scrape data,” then… Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to release data” in easy to use formats. Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”, and those sources of data are going to be automated and updated in real-time.” -JavaunMoradi, NPR
- 26. Drones + data collection
- 28. Security challenges • Protect your sources? Protect your data!
- 29. Ethics & politics over media use of data • Gun map graphic
- 32. Accountability for “personalized redlining” • Gun map graphic
- 33. Transparency for geographic profiling • Gun map graphic WSJ: Websites vary prices, based upon user information
- 34. Monitoring predictive policing • Gun map graphic Verge: Chicago crime and profiling Geekwire: Predictive Policing
- 35. Investigating human tissue trafficking • Gun map graphic ICIJ: The data behind skin and bone
- 36. Data + journalism + activism + responsive institutions = social change
- 37. Government of the people, for the people, by the people, with the people.