[ddj] Best Practice in Data Journalism - Contributions for the Data Driven Journalism Handbook *today*

Lucy Chambers lucy.chambers at okfn.org
Mon Nov 7 10:51:40 UTC 2011 

Hi Angelica,

This sounds wonderful!

We've actually met Mariano from Hacks & Hackers in Buenos Aires here at
MozFest (in cc) - do you guys know each other? It sounds like you guys have
come up against many of the barriers possible in the course of an
investigation, so this sounds like a great case study to see how you got
round the difficulties.

Would you be prepared to draft something along the lines of the questions I
provided earlier (Perhaps you can draft offline and I'll send you the link
to the document when I get a proper internet connection? That would be
great!



Lucy

On Sunday, November 6, 2011, Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo
Multimedia) wrote:

>  Dear Lucy: in LA NACION from Buenos Aires, Argentina, we´ve done a
> couple of dataJ cases I´ve explained in English in this post that we made
> for an award entry (btw: we won the award!!)-****
>
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> Besides, there´s a couple of videos we´ve made with Screenr , with our
> scrapper programs running as well as the difficulties we find in gathering
> data from PDFs . Here in Argentina there´s still no FOIA, no data.gov, no
> data in good conditions…, that´s why LA NACION in Argentina is contributing
> to any open data iniciative , hackaton or whatever citizen initiative we
> find to build data for everyone in argentina to use. That´s why we
> supported Hacks and Hackers Buenos Aires last hackaton too, and I´ve been
> there myself.****
>
> ** **
>
>  With one of this cases (Transportation Subsidies), I presented a pitch in
> Hacks Hackers Boston for ONA this September,  that was solved by a python
> programmer there with an application called “PDF spy” (now in github) that
> monitors PDF changes (meaning: PDFs replaced with the same names ).  Here
> in Argentina LA NACION is contributing to every open data initiative ****
>
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> Please take a look at this post and let me know if this is may be of help,
> and besides, I can contribute with the handbook too, but let me know.****
>
>
> http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/projects/original-online-reporting/data-journalism-tableau-visualization-and-open-data-in-la-nacion/
> ****
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> J****
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> Angelica****
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> Angelica Peralta Ramos****
>
> Multimedia Development Manager – Data Project Lider****
>
> LA NACION****
>
> Buenos Aires, Argentina****
>
> http://www.lanacion.com.ar****
>
> http://www.twitter.com/momiperalta****
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> *De:* data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 'data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org');> [mailto:
> data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org');>] *En nombre de *Lucy
> Chambers
> *Enviado el:* Domingo, 06 de Noviembre de 2011 09:24
> *Para:* List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
> *Asunto:* [ddj] Best Practice in Data Journalism - Contributions for the
> Data Driven Journalism Handbook *today*****
>
> ** **
>
> Any Sunday Journalists out there? ****
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>
> The OKF Team and the European Journalism Centre are at Mozilla Festival in
> London today today, half way through our marathon sprint to put together
> the first draft of the Data Driven Journalism Handbook. See (
> https://mozillafestival.org/2011/09/28/data-journalism/) for more
> details. We've got some great contributions so far and want to finish on a
> high! ****
>
> ** **
>
> Today - I am focusing on collecting case studies from 3 particular areas:
> ****
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> 1. *Data powered stories - *stories where you don't necessarily see the
> data, but the hard work of a data-wrangling journalist extracted a story
> from the data****
>
> 2. *Data served with stories - *stories where effort is made to show the
> reader the actual data behind the stories, either through diagrams, by
> directly linking to the source data, or by giving the public the source
> data to download... ****
>
> 3. *Data driven applications - *journalism is no longer just blocks of
> prose, infovis and interactive applications are just as important and we're
> looking for the best cases here...****
>
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> ## How you can help: ****
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> *Level 1.* Send us links to best examples you know of of each of the
> above categories... (*Bonus Points* if you can point us in the direction of
> the people behind the story) ****
>
> *Level 2.* Look at and answer the questions below the signature, answers
> on a postcard / email to me directly so that we can feature your
> contributions in the book! If you would like me to mention any particular
> affiliation for your contribution, please let me know! ****
>
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>
> It would be great to get a great spread of stories and approaches from all
> over the world and as many different approaches as possible. ****
>
> Happy brainstorming! ****
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>
> Lucy ****
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>
> ## The Sections****
>   1.4.1 Data powered stories ****
>
>    - Overview: Give and describe successful examples of data powered
>    stories you worked on. Describe how you produced these stories. The aim is
>    to give journalists and decision-makers in newsrooms who might be
>    interested in data journalism a sense of what the potential of data powered
>    stories is and how they could go about producing them.****
>
>
>     - What data did you use and how did you obtain it?****
>       - What determined you to start this project?****
>       - What did the project aim to achieve?****
>       - How long did you work on the project?****
>       - How many people worked on it?****
>       - What was the cost of the project?****
>       - What were the skills necessary for this project? (domain
>       knowledge, coding, research, visualisation, etc.)****
>       - What is the role of datasets in these stories? (e.g.: give rise
>       to new stories, enrich stories, contextualize  stories, help journalists
>       explore topics in new ways, etc.)****
>       -
>
>

-- 
Lucy Chambers
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lucyfediachambers
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