10 Ways Data is Changing Journalism

1 10 ways data is changing journalism 2 3 Bigger Datasets... ...smaller things 4 ...smaller things 5 ...smaller things 6 ...smaller things 7 ...smaller things You Don't have to be a Developer ...but sometimes it helps 8 ...smaller things 9 10 Data journalism = 80% perspiration + 10% great idea + 10% output It's (still) about the stories "The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask" James Cameron, 1969 Simon Rogers guardian.co.uk/data @GuardianData fb.com/guardiandata guardiandata.tumblr.com simon.rogers@guardian.co.uk None of this is new “Comment is free, but…” Facts are sacred "At all times such information it contains is valuable; because without knowing … the best opinions which can be formed of the condition and future progress of society must be necessarily incorrect" It's the new normal It's all About Curation We Will Be Data Providers Simon Rogersguardian.co.uk/data@datastorefb.com/guardiandataguardiandata.tumblr.comsimon.rogers@guardian.co.uk Crowdsourcing ≠ Data Open Data Means Open Data Journalism Good Design Matters The new short-form Data journalism 80% perspiration + 10% great idea + 10% output this link is probably giving credit to some image, but I don't know which Making it truly public "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do" Raw data now Give elections to the people