The Data Journalism Handbook

Preface;
For the Great Unnamed;
Contributors;
What This Book Is (And What It Isn’t);
Conventions Used in This Book;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 What Is Data Journalism?;
1.2 Why Journalists Should Use Data;
1.3 Why Is Data Journalism Important?;
1.4 Some Favorite Examples;
1.5 Data Journalism in Perspective;
Chapter 2: In The Newsroom;
2.1 The ABC’s Data Journalism Play;
2.2 Data Journalism at the BBC;
2.3 How the News Apps Team at the Chicago Tribune Works;
2.4 Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog;
2.5 Data Journalism at the Zeit Online;
2.6 How to Hire a Hacker;
2.7 Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackathons;
2.8 Following the Money: Data Journalism and Cross-Border Collaboration;
2.9 Our Stories Come As Code;
2.10 Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-Finished Content for Stakeholder Groups;
2.11 Business Models for Data Journalism;
Chapter 3: Case Studies;
3.1 The Opportunity Gap;
3.2 A Nine Month Investigation into European Structural Funds;
3.3 The Eurozone Meltdown;
3.4 Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org;
3.5 Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding;
3.6 Electoral Hack in Realtime (Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires);
3.7 Data in the News: WikiLeaks;
3.8 Mapa76 Hackathon;
3.9 The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots;
3.10 Illinois School Report Cards;
3.11 Hospital Billing;
3.12 Care Home Crisis;
3.13 The Tell-All Telephone;
3.14 Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates;
3.15 Bus Subsidies in Argentina;
3.16 Citizen Data Reporters;
3.17 The Big Board for Election Results;
3.18 Crowdsourcing the Price of Water;
Chapter 4: Getting Data;
4.1 A Five Minute Field Guide;
4.2 Your Right to Data;
4.3 Wobbing Works. Use It!;
4.4 Getting Data from the Web;
4.5 The Web as a Data Source;
4.6 Crowdsourcing Data at the Guardian Datablog;
4.7 How the Datablog Used Crowdsourcing to Cover Olympic Ticketing;
4.8 Using and Sharing Data: the Black Letter, the Fine Print, and Reality;
Chapter 5: Understanding Data;
5.1 Become Data Literate in Three Simple Steps;
5.2 Tips for Working with Numbers in the News;
5.3 Basic Steps in Working with Data;
5.4 The £32 Loaf of Bread;
5.5 Start With the Data, Finish With a Story;
5.6 Data Stories;
5.7 Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice;
5.8 Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data;
Chapter 6: Delivering Data;
6.1 Presenting Data to the Public;
6.2 How to Build a News App;
6.3 News Apps at ProPublica;
6.4 Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism;
6.5 Using Visualizations to Tell Stories;
6.6 Different Charts Tell Different Tales;
6.7 Data Visualization DIY: Our Top Tools;
6.8 How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang;
6.9 Public Data Goes Social;
6.10 Engaging People Around Your Data;
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