Data-driven journalism – Anne Helmond

Video and slides from the Hacking Journalism event at SETUP Utrecht (in Dutch)

I was invited to present tools from the Digital Methods Initiative at the Hacking Journalism event organized by SETUP Utrecht. In 12 minutes I presented our approach, tools, possible user case scenarios and an example of the operationalization of a research question. Here are the slides and video registration from my – very dense –… Read more Video and slides from the Hacking Journalism event at SETUP Utrecht (in Dutch)

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Anne

Session 4: New Formats for Presenting Information and Stories

Stijn DeBrouwere: Information Architecture for News We’re not using the implicit structure of news articles to inform the readers. Burt Herman – Hacking the News Applying computer science to journalism Https://hackshackers.com The story as data. Standard in computer science: Object-oriented programming and model-view-controller (MVC), but how to apply it to a story? Dissect the story:… Read more Session 4: New Formats for Presenting Information and Stories

Posted on August 24, 2010August 25, 2010 by Anne

Session 3: Storytelling with Data

Cynthia O’Murchu (Investigative Reporter), The Financial Times Â Â 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

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Anne

Frank van Ham (IBM) – Data Visualization in Journalism

Van Ham was part of the IBM team who developed and created Many Eyes.Â Data visualization is the use of: computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data (to “amplify cognition”).Â “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

Posted on August 24, 2010August 24, 2010 by Anne

Simon Rogers – Free our Data: The Guardian Approach

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

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Anne

Richard Rogers: Lippmannian Device

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

Posted on August 24, 2010August 24, 2010 by Anne