[ddj] Defining datajournalism

Thu Oct 6 10:12:56 UTC 2011

Mirko, Tom,

Many thanks for your feedback! It concurs to the idea of datajournalism as a
byword for 'new stuff in information management', starting from data
collection and how to envision a story to interactive apps.

I'll include your points in the Wikipedia entry!

Best

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tom Kronenburg <tom.kronenburg at zenc.nl>wrote:

> Dear Nicholas,
>
> I will publish a report on open data and datajournalism on the
> ePSIplatform.eu
>
> In it, I recognize 4 types of activities that i consider datajournalism.
> (naturally, with any definition you draw lines that are a bit arbitrary)
>
> " There are four basic types of data journalistic activities. All four
> types can use PSI, and we will provide examples of how journalists used Open
> Data to write their stories. Data journalists use (open) data
>
> To discover newsworthy facts or stories [from data]
>
> To discover trends hidden in [large] datasets
>
> To compile datasets for further dissemination to the public.
> To create data visualisations."
>
> 1: is what you might consider CAR (even though i understand that CAR is as
> much an umbrella-word as data-journalism).
> 2: is different from 1, because the timing is different. I'd say the first
> category is about a single event, while 2 is about trends.
> 3: is what you call "Database Journalism" or structured journalism.
> 4: I have swept together all visualization/interaction stuff in one
> category: "Infographics, dataviz, interactive viz (for me the same as
> dataviz, although with different tools) - same goes for serious games".
>
> So, basically, i think we agree on the main points that are in there.
>
> I don't really know whether or not distinguishing category's 1 and 2 is
> important, but for me it feels like they are very different types of
> activities. The first is 'searching' through datasets, combining single
> lines, whereas trend discovery is much more about statistics, massive
> computation and such.
>
> When the report is published, i'll let you know.
>
> Kind regards, Tom
>
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> Op 6 okt 2011, om 10:30 heeft Nicolas Kayser-Bril het volgende geschreven:
>
>
> Datajournalism has been widely used to unite several concepts and link them
> to journalism. Among these are:
>
>
>    - *Computer assisted reporting* and *data-driven journalism*, where
>    journalists make use of large databases to produce stories,
>    - *Infographics*,
>    - *Data visualization*,
>    - *Interactive visualization*,
>    - *Serious games*, in the sense that they take interaction a step
>    further, and
>    - *Database journalism* or structured journalism, an information
>    management system where pieces of information are organized in a database
>    (as opposed to a traditional story-centric organizational structure).
>
>
> I also plan to rework several entries, notably:
>
>
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