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Data Journalism in 2017: The current state and challenges

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Stuart Thompson, graphics director no Wall Street Journal, na tese de Alberto Cairo "Nerd Journalism"

STORIES THAT ARE ENRICHED BY DATA

These are the traditional news stories in which relevant data is used to verify the underlying reporting.

-- >> STORIES THAT USE DATA TO INVESTIGATE

Surfaces a story hidden in the data.

-- >> STORIES THAT EXPLAIN DATA

Reducing the complexity of data and providing meaning to readers.

Como tornar sua história de dados atraente

“So there’s period of maybe like a couple of years ago, or probably longer where data dumps were really popular, so you will have this huge dataset and you put it Online, you have this big splash visual with a thousand bubbles or something, and you have like 16 filters and like 12 drop downs, and you can get so into that data, and everyone’s like “ah cool, that’s so much fun!”.

And then we just see that readers just don’t use that and they don’t want to spend half an hour digging into data, if there’s something interesting in that data, just show it to them. […] So that’s the change that we’ve seen here. And we’re trying to encourage everybody to do, is FOCUS ON THE STORY FIRST."

- Qual a melhor forma de contar a história relevante por trás desses dados?

- O que precisa ser destacado?

- Como tornar a informação atraente? Como gerar um "UAL"?

- Quais recursos visuais podem ser úteis?

- Que estrutura visual narrativa pode

ser criada?

1) Acesso a um grande volume de dados

2) Preparação dos dados para análise

3) Análise dos dados

4) Infografia para analisar e visualizar os dados

LEAD, seu lindo!

5) Transformar o lead lindo em

uma história linda

"Statistics is the sexiest

subject around"

Exploratory

X

Explanatory

Paul Bradshaw:

10 principles for data journalism in its second decade (2017)

We should ensure that our stories are not merely about numbers, but people. (...) A good story should do two things: tell us why we should care, and tell us why it matters.

Data helps us to establish why a story matters: it connects one person’s story to 100 others like it; without data, a bad experience is merely an anecdote. But without a human story, data becomes just another statistic.

Exploratório X Explicativo

Paul Bradshaw

Principle 7. We should strive to keep the significant interesting and relevant by seeking to find and tell the human story that the data shines a spotlight on

Google News Lab

Data Journalism in 2017: The current state and challenges

It should also be noted that using data to elucidate the facts does not always help the reader connect with the content on a visceral level. Showing a statistic or number may not be the key to helping a reader fully understand and appreciate the story .

As one of our interviewees noted, “Journalistic work still remains the same: the journalists must still go out to interact with people, to detect the story behind the story. Data alone cannot be used to tell stories about individuals; the emotional story can only be found when journalists go out into the community.”

- Os dados falam de pessoas/lugares/datas?

- Ou pelo menos afetam pessoas/lugares?

- Quem são as pessoas/quais são os lugares que mais representam o universo dos dados?

- Como essas histórias individuais se relacionam com as histórias de 100, 10000, 1000000?

- Houve um clímax na vida dessas pessoas/na história desses lugares, relacionado ao que narram os dados?

O simples também pode ser sexy

Informação

||

Emoção/Atração

Edutainer

=

Educator +

Entertainer

Simon Rogers

Data needs empathy to make it real

(2018)

Mona Chalabi

In other words, data journalism can often seem abstract and removed from your personal life. Bringing it closer, the ‘near’ view, is what makes it real and concrete. It’s the difference between flying over a place and remarking how the cars look like toys and being there on the road in the back seat of a taxi. One is remote and removed, the other is happening to you.

Data as the begginning of a conversation and not the end. Because data alone will never give us a solution

Giorgia Lupi

Xocas, Visual storyteller, data journalist (https://medium.com/xocas/)

Giorgia Lupi,

information designer

If data journalism is about anything, it’s the flexibility to search for new ways of storytelling.

A narrativa está a

serviço dos dados.

Nunca o contrário.

Working with data means designing ways to transform the abstract and the uncountable into something that can be seem, felt and directedly reconnected to our lives and our behaviours. something that is hard to achieve if you let the obsessions for the numbers and tecnology that surround them leads us in the process.

Storytelling can’t come before data, facts, evidence. The reporting, the research, the data analysis shapes the story.

The drama of the characters becomes so fascinating that we fail to make the connection with the larger points of our stories, and the story becomes a collection of voices, no tie to an overarching structure.

Simon Rogers