Wits dj lecture

DATA JOURNALISM

Peter Verweij
Wits University Johannesburg
Sept 2012

The end of news and journalism
The Economist and DNR

Are social media killing news?

News breaks on 
But this is not the
Twitter first end of quality

Twitter as the alarm reporting: data
bell of journalism journalism

Example TK1951 of
Amsterdam airport

Some examples of Data Journalism
 Olympics and the
ranking
 Including: population,
GDP, team
 Guardian

Examples 2
 Traffic accidents
 Download data
 Top ten
 Put them on the map

Examples 3
 Classic Hurricane
Andrew

What is Data Journalism?

Finding stories IT IS THE STORY

In the public interest NOT THE DATA

Without a legal
foundation

From a pile of data

How do you do it?
 Get the data from
NBS, NGO:
download or copy
paste
 Search web for xls
 Scrape data
 Pdf to cvs and xls
 Analyze: excel or R
 Visualize: manyeyes,
tableau, qgis

From NL to ZA
 SA parliament data
 NL parliament data
 And here is my map

Data journalism is:

TEAMWORK: 
QUALITY

Writer JOURNALISM

Researcher/

Nick Davies – Flat
statistician Earth News –
churnalism

Hacker 
Checking is the

Designer justification of our
profession

50 years old
 Introducing
computers to
journalism
 Philip Meyer and the
Detriots Riots
 And the London
Riots
 Names of the beast:
precision, analytical,
car, ddj

Zoom in: tools of science
 Ch Wright Mills:
Power Elite
 Social network
analysis
 Connections
 Mathematics: walks
 Tools: NodeXL or
Gehi
 Twitter: journalists
and MP's

Conclusion

New Possibilities for reporting; new jobs;
improve the weak position of the media

Check and review the use of power

Update your knowledge and skills

Thank you!
 peter@d3-media.nl

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