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DJCamp2011 Flyer
Who should attend the lowest common denominator story-telling tools are often the Transport
#djcamp2011? appropriate for analysis (e.g. same, e.g. GIS, or visual stats or Getting to and around
Recognising the potential of data ASCII or CSV or geo-located data social network maps, timelines, Manchester is easy and
journalism is one thing. Making records)? etc.) Vision+Media at Media City is a
and managing those projects is short tram ride from the city
Analysis: Given the data (in all When and where?
another. This workshop is aimed centre and Piccadilly station
its formats), what tools do I use to This two- day seminar runs from
at journalists who are new to or (nearest tram stop: Broadway)
tease out meaning? Statistics? 9:30am – 7pm on 19th May and
recently responsible for turning
Content analysis? Social Network 9:30am to 5pm 20th May 2011 at
data into stories with impact. What to bring?
Mapping? Geostatistics? Vision+Media @ Media City UK ,
All participants will need to bring
100 Broadway, Salford Quays,
What will you learn? Information OUT: After analysis, their own laptops. Wireless
Manchester, M50 2UW Google
Collaboration tools for the what are the best ways to pass broadband and power outlets will
map .
newsroom team the insights, conclusions and data be available.
Customizing search-and- to the public? i.e. Best way to (a) Every participant will be expected
Fees
retrieve data tools tell the story; (b) the best media to share in the 1X1X1 session
Fifteen free places are available
Extracting data from documents to use (today, multiple story-
for freelances and small
(one slide X one tip X one
Data cleaning and formatting telling for multiple platforms) and
businesses (less than 250
minute) on the Thursday
An elementary introduction to (c) make my underlying data and evening.
employees) from the North West
scraping web sites for data methods available to the public
of England. An additional 15
Using web “cloud” tools to clean so they can do their own analysis Questions about #djcamp2011
spaces are open to journalists
and display data if required. This might mean, for Contact François Nel at
from outside the region, or from
Most important, how to tease example, an "online footnote" at FPNel@uclan.ac.uk or on Twitter
larger media groups (with more
meaning and STORIES out of the end every paragraph with a @francoisnel to discuss this
than 250 employees) at £200.
data and then tell those stories link to the "This is how I know workshop further.
in multiple ways what I just wrote about" site --
How to enrol?
maybe a gov document,
Enrol at:
Content will include: transcript of my interviews?
http://djcamp2011.eventbrite.com
HotTip: The analytic tools and the
Data IN: What are data types?
What data do I have? What data
do I need? Where will I find it?
[Everything from a street
“Is data journalism? Is it journalism to publish a
reporter's notes to photographs to raw database? 1. Who cares? 2. I hope my
statistics] How do I clean and
validate the data? Is that data in a competitors waste their time arguing about this
format that permits: (a) sharing
with colleagues and/or experts
as long as possible.”
[e.g. emergency vehicle - Adrian Holovaty, founder of EveryBlock
response-time geographers] and
(b) analysis using a variety of
tools? How can I get that data in