Book description
When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.
Table of contents
- The Data Journalism Handbook
- Preface
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1. Introduction
- What Is Data Journalism?
- Why Journalists Should Use Data
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Why Is Data Journalism Important?
- Filtering the Flow of Data
- New Approaches to Storytelling
- Like Photo Journalism with a Laptop
- Data Journalism Is the Future
- Number-Crunching Meets Word-Smithing
- Updating Your Skills Set
- A Remedy for Information Asymmetry
- An Answer to Data-Driven PR
- Providing Independent Interpretations of Official Information
- Dealing with the Data Deluge
- Our Lives Are Data
- A Way to Save Time
- An Essential Part of the Journalists’ Toolkit
- Adapting to Changes in Our Information Environment
- A Way to See Things You Might Not Otherwise See
- A Way To Tell Richer Stories
- Some Favorite Examples
- Data Journalism in Perspective
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2. In The Newsroom
- The ABC’s Data Journalism Play
- Data Journalism at the BBC
- How the News Apps Team at the Chicago Tribune Works
- Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
- Data Journalism at the Zeit Online
- How to Hire a Hacker
- Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackathons
- Following the Money: Data Journalism and Cross-Border Collaboration
- Our Stories Come As Code
- Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-Finished Content for Stakeholder Groups
- Business Models for Data Journalism
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3. Case Studies
- The Opportunity Gap
- A Nine Month Investigation into European Structural Funds
- The Eurozone Meltdown
- Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org
- Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding
- Electoral Hack in Realtime (Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires)
- Data in the News: WikiLeaks
- Mapa76 Hackathon
- The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots
- Illinois School Report Cards
- Hospital Billing
- Care Home Crisis
- The Tell-All Telephone
- Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates
- Bus Subsidies in Argentina
- Citizen Data Reporters
- The Big Board for Election Results
- Crowdsourcing the Price of Water
- 4. Getting Data
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5. Understanding Data
- Become Data Literate in Three Simple Steps
- Tips for Working with Numbers in the News
- Basic Steps in Working with Data
- The £32 Loaf of Bread
- Start With the Data, Finish With a Story
- Data Stories
- Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice
- Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data
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6. Delivering Data
- Presenting Data to the Public
- How to Build a News App
- News Apps at ProPublica
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Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism
- Tip 1: Use small multiples to quickly orient yourself in a large dataset
- Tip 2: Look at your data upside down and sideways
- Tip 3: Don’t assume
- Tip 4: Avoid obsessing over precision
- Tip 5: Create chronologies of cases and events
- Tip 6: Meet with your graphics department early and often
- Tips For Publication
- Using Visualizations to Tell Stories
- Different Charts Tell Different Tales
- Data Visualization DIY: Our Top Tools
- How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang
- Public Data Goes Social
- Engaging People Around Your Data
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: The Data Journalism Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449330064
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