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How to: get to grips with data journalism
A graph showing the number of IEDs cleared from the Afghanistan War Logs Only a couple of years ago, the idea that journalists would need to know how to use a spreadsheet would have been laughed out of the newsroom. Now those benighted days are way behind us and extracting stories out of data is part of every journalist's toolkit of skills.Newspapers
Data journalism and data visualization from the Datablog | News | guardian.co.uk
Six soldiers who were killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan: top row left to right, Sergeant Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley and Private Anthony Frampton, with bottom row left to right, Private Christopher Kershaw, Private Daniel Wade and Private Daniel Wilford Photograph: MOD/PA What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan for British forces? As British troop deaths reach 412, these are the latest figures - including the most recent wounded and amputation statistics
Data journalism is huge. I don't mean 'huge' as in fashionable - although it has become that in recent months - but 'huge' as in 'incomprehensibly enormous'. It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and programming.
How to be a data journalist
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Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on "data" to feed our stories, to the point that "data-driven reporting" becomes second nature to journalists. The shift from facts to data is subtle and makes perfect sense.
Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century
(fr) Le journalisme de données
Jeudi dernier, le Point annonçait la fin du P2P , graphique à l’appui, montrant quatre belles courbes tendant inexorablement vers le zéro, censées mesurer l’activité du P2P sur le réseau internet. La chute semble brutale et inévitable, passer d’une mesure de 3 à 0,5 en 2 ans ne peut rien annoncer de bon pour ce que l’on mesure, à moins que ce soit du cholestérol, car après tout, que mesure-t-on sur cette courbe ? Les scientifiques on l’art de pondre des graphiques sur tout et n’importe quoi, mais ils ont également un talent certain pour partir du principe que vous savez lire un graphique. A leur décharge, il faut dire qu’habituellement, ils ne communiquent qu’entre eux, et qu’ils savent, eux, lire un graphique. My graphic is rich (and taylored)
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee
// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting // or for those that have scripting disabled. Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists.
