Data Journalism

What it is, why it's important and how to integrate it to your newsroom.

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1. DATA JOURNALISM What it is, why it’s important and how integrate it into your newsroom Friday, January 25, 13
2. @aboutaaron Friday, January 25, 13
3. Data Desk MAPS, DATABASES, ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION Friday, January 25, 13
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5. WHAT IS DATA JOURNALISM? Friday, January 25, 13
6. data |ˈdatə, ˈdātə| noun [ treated as sing. or pl. ] facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. Friday, January 25, 13
7. WE ALREADY DO THIS, GUYS. Friday, January 25, 13
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGusSdisIFo Friday, January 25, 13
9. But it ain’t just Friday, January 25, 13
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11. JOURNALIST COLLECT A TON OF DATA. Friday, January 25, 13
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14. Encourage experimentation in the classroom Friday, January 25, 13
15. FUSION TABLES Friday, January 25, 13
16. Resources: Open-source journalism (tools used for the site): • WordPress • Heroku • PostgreSQL • Timeline.js • Amazon S3 Initiatives / Companies • Knight Lab • Knight Mozilla Labs • LAT Datadesk • NYT Open • Globe Lab • O’Reilly Radar Talks: • Google FT examples (https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontablestalks/stories) • Data sharing, visualization and app building with Fusion Tables • Get the most out of Google Fusion Tables (NICAR 2012) • NICAR 2011 Talk • ONA 11 talk Friday, January 25, 13
17. Stay scrappy Friday, January 25, 13