1. Data Journalism
The up and downs and the future
Lisa Evans

2. What is Data Journalism?

3. Data journalism is:
stripping down the news to the bare facts
and relating these facts
(sometimes this process creates new news)

4. Isn’t journalism
fact based anyway?

5. Isn’t that investigative
journalism?

6. Isn’t that research?

7. Let’s look at the trends
(the functions of data journalism)

8. Q.
Accountability A.
Where does our money go? Work it out!

9. what does the government spend money on?

13. how well our tax
"investment" is doing?

15. owed and owned – debts = return to
investors

16. investment and profits + debts = owned and
owed

22. Accountability

23. Accountability

24. Policy Analysis
Prof David MacKay

25. How does our energy use
compare with energy made?
Or

28. If we had same approach for
tuition fee policy …
… would this still happen?

33. B r in g in g t h e
d a t a t o lif e
H o w c a n p e o p le m a k e
s e n s e o f t h is ?

34. All central government spend over £25,000

40. Using well-defined facts

42. Freedom of Information

43. (add george osborns)

45. Freedom of Information

46. (Add Rejection of freedom of
information)

47. Tools we use
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KEY: Project Miso + D3
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Google spreadsheets, fusion, maps
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Tableau
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Many eyes

Aspic

48. http://misoproject.com/

49. http://d3js.org/

50. How is this data journalism
working out?
How successful are we?

51. All UK daily newspapers

52. How does the Guardian circulation compare
to other quality news providers?

53. Online figures

54. The datablog and data store is
the second most popular blog
on the Guardian website
Why?
Engagement

55. The Future

56. Challenges: The news system
is not set up for data
journalists
(the press officer problem
the time to gather and connect information
no specialists yet)

57. Two possible futures
Either:
we get quicker and better prepared
or
we create news by becoming specialist

58. Thank you
Lisa Evans
Lisa.Evans@guardian.co.uk
@datastore
@objectgroup