Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Cynthia O’Murchu (Investigative Reporter), The Financial Times   The era of the innumerate journalist is over. Is the era of technology-averse journalist also heading to a close? WikiLeaks, Scraperwiki, Theyworkforyou.org and other organisations advocating transparancy. But (how) will journalists and media handle it? Rhetoric versus reality: Open government … But data is not always… Read more Session 3: Storytelling with Data
Van Ham was part of the IBM team who developed and created Many Eyes. Data visualization is the use of: computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data (to “amplify cognition”). “Cognition amplificators” Any representation technique that allows you to distort the truth is a medium. Data visualization as such is a medium and people have used… Read more Frank van Ham (IBM) – Data Visualization in Journalism
Session 1: Data Production, Usage and Integration The Guardian was collecting data all the time, not doing anything with it. So we set up a blog (Guardian Data Blog) and we thought people who would be using this blog would be developers. However, “real people” want the data, not only developers. Putting raw data on… Read more Simon Rogers – Free our Data: The Guardian Approach
Session 1: Data Production, Usage and Integration Showing the partisanship or issue commitment of an actor. Tool is named after Walter Lippmann. In “A Test of the News” he argues that publics don’t exist, but publics need to be created through tools, eg by being polled. He proposed a series of tools, one of which… Read more Richard Rogers: Lippmannian Device
Session 1: Data Production, Usage and Integration Background: Builds political applications so citizens can understand what their government is doing. One of the founders of the open data network in Germany. – access to or production of structured datasets – provide raw data dor the users alogn with the story: as a spreadsheet, and/or interactive… Read more Lorenz Matzat: Weatherstations
Session 1: Data Production, Usage and Integration From rivalrous goods (print) to non-rivalrous goods (bits). We need to move beyond datasets used to illustrate reports. There is an opportunity for an ecosystem of open data: – small pieces, loosely joined – easy to reuse, easy to recombine – lots of contributors/maintainers – distributed, decentralised –… Read more Jonathan Gray: Open Data and Data Driven Journalism