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From zero to hero: How data journalism helped establish the ICIJ as a top investigative... - 0 views

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    Over recent years, data has become an indispensable source for journalists and news organisations, providing excellent material for investigative work as well as storytelling. This has led to the emergence of data journalism, which, broadly speaking, uses information science and analytical techniques in conjunction with journalistic workflows to produce compelling stories rooted in data. Despite the relative maturity of data journalism and the growing application of data in editorial workflows, there is still a lot to learn about the systematic, seamless and effective integration of data and computational tools in newsrooms. It is time time for a holistic assessment of this emerging field by looking deeply into the ways newsrooms across the world have adopted data in their day-to-day workflows, the formation of their data teams, their best practices for producing high quality data driven investigative work, their success and failure stories, and emerging training requirements.
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Data Visualization: How To Tell A Story With Data - 0 views

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    Any great story means visualization and detail. It takes the small additions of those details to build a picture in someone's mind to truly make the story complete. The same goes for analytics and data. Data is just a collection of numbers until you turn it into a story. Showing reports and dashboards can be overwhelming without adding a narrative to the data. Any great insight explains what happened, why it is important and how you can use it to turn it into something actionable. Data visualization is using data and statistics in creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions about a hypothesis, or prove theories, that can help drive decisions in the organization.
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Data Stories That Aren't Downers - Features - Source: An OpenNews project - 0 views

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    A list of "happy data stories" or stories related to the arts...including: Pup Inflation: Good Dogs Getting Better. "Oh, but for a much purer example of silly data journalism that I remembered as soon as I hit send, earlier this year I scraped and analyzed the dog ratings from the Twitter account WeRateDogs." -David Henry Montgomery Sneakin' Toward the Weekend, Workers Fill Roadways "How about using hourly traffic counting stations to show how people are cheating out of the office earlier and earlier on Fridays? Mental note: we're four years away from that link being older than my incoming freshmen. Also, note the wonder at phones able to receive email being someday widely available in the story." -Matt Waite
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Stats and Stories - Sifting through noisy data to find stories now available. - 0 views

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    Mona Chalabi (@MonaChalabi) is the Data Editor of The Guardian US and a columnist at New York Magazine. Mona uses hand-drawn visualisations and data stories to make the numbers more relatable. Before getting into journalism, Mona worked in the nonprofit sector, first at the Bank of England, then Transparency International and the International Organization for Migration. 30 minute podcast interview, with some great examples of why data matters, and how to tell stories with data.
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Data journalism on radio, audio and podcasts - Online Journalism Blog - 0 views

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    examples of data journalism in audio / podcast form - including: Right To Remain Silent is one particularly good example, because it's about bad data: specifically. police who manipulated official statistics. You might also listen to Choosing Wrong, which includes a section about polling. Another favourite of mine is an audio story by The Economist about the prostitution industry, based on data scraped from sex trade websites: More bang for your buck (there are even worse puns in the charts). David Rhodes, a BBC data journalist, has a range of stories on his Audioboom account, including pieces on Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, and a piece discussing "Did Greece really not pay 89.5% of their taxes in 2010" from the excellent factchecking radio programme, More or Less.
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Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs - 0 views

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    Once your business has started collecting and combining all kinds of data, the next elusive step is to extract value from it. Your data may hold tremendous amounts of potential value, but not an ounce of value can be created unless insights are uncovered and translated into actions or business outcomes. During a 2009 interview, Google's Chief Economist Dr. Hal R.Varian stated, "The ability to take data-to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it-that's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades." Fast forward to 2016 and many businesses would agree with Varian's astute assessment.
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2016's best precision journalism stories announced | News & Analysis | Data Driven Jour... - 1 views

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    In 1967, following riots in Detroit, Philip Meyer used survey research methods, powered by a computer, to show that college-educated people were just as likely to have rioted as high school drop outs. His story was one of the first examples of computer assisted reporting and precision journalism, in which journalists use social science methodologies to extract and tell stories. In recognition of his contribution to the area, each year's best computer-driven and precision stories are celebrated through the Philip Meyer Journalism Award. The Award's 2016 winners have just been announced, with the successful entries showcasing techniques derived from quantitative and qualitative methods, such as surveys using randomly-selected respondents, descriptive and inferential statistical analysis, social network analysis, content analysis, field experiments, and more.
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4 examples of computational thinking in journalism - Online Journalism Blog - 1 views

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    Nice piece on computational thinking and data journalism. For example... This story, published in the UK tabloid newspaper The Mirror, is a great example of understanding how a computer might 'see' information and be able to help you extract a story from it. The data behind the story is a collection of over 300,000 pieces of sheet music. On paper that music would be a collection of ink on paper. But because that has now been digitised, it is now quantified. That means we can perform calculations and comparisons against it. We could: Count the number of notes Calculate the variety (number of different) of notes Identify the most common notes Identify the notes with the maximum value Identify the notes with the minimum value Calculate a 'range' by subtracting the minimum from the maximum The journalist has seen this, and decided that the last option has perhaps the most potential to be newsworthy - we assume some singers have wider ranges than others, and the reality may surprise us (a quality of newsworthiness).
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Australian datablog | Australia-news | The Guardian - 0 views

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    The Guardian datablog has a set of visualisations https://www.theguardian.com/technology/data-visualisation and a set of stories focused on the Australian context; useful for exploring how data analysis and visusalisation are used to tell a story.
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Men on earth now outnumber women by 66 million - Quartz - 0 views

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    A great data-story on the gender imbalance worldwide, using data and research to investigate and highlight key issues. This piece in the economist takes a different approach to using the data https://www.economist.com/node/15636231 "In 1960, the earliest year the World Bank provides data for, the world was within 0.002 percentage points of a perfectly equal distribution. Ever since, the gap has widened; now men outnumber women on the planet by more than 66 million. When this piece was first published in early 2014, the gap had already been the widest ever - the trend continues."
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Data can help to end malnutrition across Africa - 0 views

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    "Between 2000 and 2015, nearly every African country improved childhood nutrition, especially in reducing stunted growth caused by malnutrition" .... " national averages do not tell the full story. In Kenya, for example, rates of wasting in children under 5 were below 6% on average nationwide in 2015, yet in certain regions plagued by several years of poor rains, crop failure and disease outbreaks, estimated levels of wasting reach as high as 28%."... "Such fine-grained insight brings tremendous responsibility to act. It shows governments, international agencies and donors exactly where to direct resources and support."..."This shows how crucial it is to invest in data. Data gaps undermine our ability to target resources, develop policies and track accountability. Without good data, we're flying blind. If you can't see it, you can't solve it."
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#dataimpact campaign - ANDS - 16 short stories about brilliant Australian research data... - 1 views

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    The eBook contains 16 short stories about brilliant Australian research data projects that have led to real-life impacts for Australia and beyond. It is intentionally very punchy and image-led. The stories were collected during ANDS' #dataimpact campaign which ran through 2016.
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House prices rise, affordability expected to worsen despite property slowdown later thi... - 1 views

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    House prices rise, affordability expected to worsen despite property slowdown later this year: CBA By business reporter Michael Janda Updated about 3 hours ago Auction sign on house replaced with sold sign Photo: Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart led gains for the month, quarter and year. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore) Related Story: Property investor borrowing drives credit surge Related Story: Property investors lead home loan surge Related Story: Wealthiest suburbs among most vulnerable to mortgage stress Map: Australia If you thought it was hard to get into the housing market, it may yet get worse unless the Federal Government changes tax policies to reduce investor demand. Key points: Sydney home prices up 16pc over 12 months, Melbourne up 11.8pc CBA economists call for "gradual reforms to both supply and demand issues" Bank regulator likely to intensify investor loan crackdown That is the warning of economists at Australia's biggest mortgage lender, the Commonwealth Bank.
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When doing data reporting, look at the raw numbers, not just at percentages -and write ... - 0 views

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    A headline in The New York Times today reads "In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda." Is it true? The story itself provides hints that the headline is misleading, and likely to damage the image of the SNAP program and its beneficiaries. This is dangerous, considering that many readers look at clickbaity headlines, like the NYTimes one, but don't read stories. SNAP households aren't different than the rest of households. Most Americans buy and drink way too much soda and, as a result, obesity and Type II diabetes have reached epidemic levels. The story says that households that receive food stamps spend 9.3% of their grocery budget on soft drinks, while families in general spend 7.1%. This is one of those cases when reporting just percentages, and not taking into account other variables, such as total spending in groceries, sounds fishy.
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Finding stories in data - 0 views

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    An excellent online course from the Open Data Institute on working with data to find stories
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Global Health - Our World in Data - 0 views

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    Ourworldindata is a great website discussing lots of different datasets about global issues. This example data-story discusses the issue of global health, giving an overview (and lots of great visualisations), and discussing how we actually measure 'health' (life expectancy, quality of life measures, etc.).
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Bike sharing: Research on health effects, helmet use and equitable access - 0 views

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    For AT2 we're asking you to analyse one of the datasets https://tinyurl.com/AEIDatasets . This piece provides some nice examples of how people are using data to do deep exploration of a topic (bike sharing) and its impact for particular stakeholders. If you were doing something on road safety/bikes, then these kinds of resources are good examples of other research you could draw on to support your own analysis of the data and to tell your data story.
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Health news headlines vs. study: A battle where readers lose - 0 views

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    The quest for balance in a health news story can fail before the first sentence if the headline isn't appropriately calibrated. With that in mind, I looked at news stories and releases that we reviewed over the past month and compared the headline message with that of the study on which the news is based. About a third of news story headlines and a quarter of news release headlines either misstated the results or went beyond what the research could support.
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Gender pay gap: the day women start working for free - Washington Post - 0 views

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    An excellent visual data story describing the gender pay gap (in America) and debunking the claim that there is no real difference in the amount men and women get paid. The pay gap varies depending on the occupation, working hours, education attainment, experience, and geography. That explains part of the difference in pay between men and women, but not all of it. And even though most economists agree that after adjusting for age, education, experience and other variables there's still an unexplained gap, there are voices who argue that the gender pay gap is a myth. Pay gap deniers purport that women's choices, rather than discrimination, cause the pay gap between women and men. But those choices are actually consequences of the social forces at play.
Simon Knight

Lies, damned lies and statistics: Why reporters must handle data with care | News & Ana... - 0 views

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    During the 2016 EU referendum campaign, both sides used statistics pretty freely to back their arguments. Understandably, UK broadcasters felt compelled to balance competing perspectives, giving audiences the opportunity to hear the relative merits of leaving or remaining in the EU. In doing so, however, the truth of these statistical claims was not always properly tested. This might help explain some of the public's misconceptions about EU membership. So, for example, although independent sources repeatedly challenged the Leave campaign's claim that the UK government spent £350m per week on EU membership, an IPSOS MORI survey found that almost half of respondents believed this was true just days before the election. Of the 6,916 news items examined in our research, more than 20% featured a statistic. Most of these statistical references were fairly vague, with little or limited context or explanation. Overall, only a third provided some context or made use of comparative data. Statistics featured mostly in stories about business, the economy, politics and health. So, for example, three-quarters of all economics items featured at least one statistic, compared to almost half of news about business. But there were some areas - where statistics might play a useful role in communicating trends or levels of risk - that statistics were rarely used.
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