内容简介

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.

This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you’ll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both.

Examine the use of data journalism at the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and other news organizations

Explore in-depth case studies on elections, riots, school performance, and corruption

Learn how to find data from the Web, through freedom of information laws, and by "crowd sourcing"

Extract information from raw data with tips for working with numbers and statistics and using data visualization

Deliver data through infographics, news apps, open data platforms, and download links

作品目录

Chapter 1 Introduction
What Is Data Journalism?
Why Journalists Should Use Data
Why Is Data Journalism Important?
Some Favorite Examples
Data Journalism in Perspective
Chapter 2 In The Newsroom
The ABC’s Data Journalism Play
Data Journalism at the BBC
How the News Apps Team at the Chicago Tribune Works
Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
Data Journalism at the Zeit Online
How to Hire a Hacker
Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackathons
Following the Money: Data Journalism and Cross-Border Collaboration
Our Stories Come As Code
Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-Finished Content for Stakeholder Groups
Business Models for Data Journalism
Chapter 3 Case Studies
The Opportunity Gap
A Nine Month Investigation into European Structural Funds
The Eurozone Meltdown
Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org
Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding
Electoral Hack in Realtime (Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires)
Data in the News: WikiLeaks
Mapa76 Hackathon
The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots
Illinois School Report Cards
Hospital Billing
Care Home Crisis
The Tell-All Telephone
Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates
Bus Subsidies in Argentina
Citizen Data Reporters
The Big Board for Election Results
Crowdsourcing the Price of Water
Chapter 4 Getting Data
A Five Minute Field Guide
Your Right to Data
Wobbing Works. Use It!
Getting Data from the Web
The Web as a Data Source
Crowdsourcing Data at the Guardian Datablog
How the Datablog Used Crowdsourcing to Cover Olympic Ticketing
Using and Sharing Data: the Black Letter, the Fine Print, and Reality
Chapter 5 Understanding Data
Become Data Literate in Three Simple Steps
Tips for Working with Numbers in the News
Basic Steps in Working with Data
The £32 Loaf of Bread
Start With the Data, Finish With a Story
Data Stories
Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice
Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data
Chapter 6 Delivering Data
Presenting Data to the Public
How to Build a News App
News Apps at ProPublica
Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism
Using Visualizations to Tell Stories
Different Charts Tell Different Tales
Data Visualization DIY: Our Top Tools
How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang
Public Data Goes Social
Engaging People Around Your Data
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作者简介

The European Journalism Centre provides training to enhance the quality of journalistic coverage of European current affairs and to provide strategic support for the European media. The Open Knowledge Foundation seeks a world in which open knowledge is ubiquitous and routine - both online and offline - and promotes open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching...

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你早上喝的果汁和泡的咖啡——在今天全球经济的背景下，这些商品与你和他人之间就存在着某种无形的联系。而讲述这种关系的语言就是数据：一个孤立的事件当中的少量信息往往缺少关联度，但如果从正确的角度观察却能发现极为重要的价值。数据分析可以为我们呈现“故事的轮廓”（SarahCohen语），或提供“新的视角”（DavidMcCandless语）。对数据的使用使得记者的工作核心由追求最先报道新闻向讲述某一事态变化展背后的真正含义转变。话题的范围十分宽泛。从“正在孕育中的下一个金融危机”到“我们消费的商品背后的经济规律”，以及“基金滥用”或“政治失误”，这些问题通过强大的数据图表展现出来清晰明了且极具说服力。

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你并不需要挖掘最新的数据有时数据是已经公开并可用的，但不是每一个都被深入挖掘过。

——引自章节：入门