How to be a data journalist | News. 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.
The idea of combining those skills to tell important stories is powerful - but also intimidating. Who can do all that? The reality is that almost no one is doing all of that, but there are enough different parts of the puzzle for people to easily get involved in, and go from there. To me, those parts come down to four things: 1. 'Finding data' can involve anything from having expert knowledge and contacts to being able to use computer assisted reporting skills or, for some, specific technical skills such as MySQL or Python to gather the data for you. 2. 3. 4. Tools such as ManyEyes for visualisation, and Yahoo! How to begin? So where does a budding data journalist start? Le Guardian utilise les données Wikileaks et demontre l’intérêt du Data Journalisme « Hyperlocal : journalisme, marketing, communautés.
Le Guardian innove en matière de journalisme de données en tirant du sens de sources ouvertes et non formatées. En s’attaquant aux données de Wikileaks concernant l’Afganistan le Guardian prouve qu’il est possible d’aborder des sources sous un autre angle. Ces données sont com posées de 92.000 entrées que le Guardian a structuré et exploitées.
Les journalistes du Guardian ont constitués une simple base de données destinée à per mettre des recherches par mot-clé, et à l’aide de cet outil, ils ont illustré trois éléments. L’usage des engins explo sifs arti sa naux dans le conflitLes morts et les bles sés lors de ce type d’attaques au fil du tempsL’emplacement de ce type d’attaques par région Plus d’info sur readwriteweb Like this: J'aime chargement… Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it? | News. Data journalism. What is it and how is it changing? Photograph: Alamy Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.
Two years ago, when we launched the Datablog, all this was new. Meanwhile every day brings newer and more innovative journalists into the field, and with them new skills and techniques. These are some of the threads from my recent talks I thought it would be good to put in one place - especially now we've got an honourable mention in the Knight Batten award for journalistic innovation. 1. Florence Nightingale's 'coxcomb' diagram on mortality in the army Data journalism has been around as long as there's been data - certainly at least since Florence Nightingale's famous graphics and report into the conditions faced by British soldiers of 1858.
The big difference? 2. 3. Sometimes. 4. Read more about this map 5. 6. Data journalism - étude de cas - GUARDIAN.