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    This document provides guidance for data journalists on how to develop a data story from idea to final story. It outlines four key steps: 1) determining what statements or hypotheses you want to make with the data; 2) identifying what variables are needed to make those statements; 3) finding out who collects those variables; and 4) obtaining the data. It then discusses cleaning and analyzing the data by looking for patterns using tools like Excel functions and pivot tables. Finally, it notes that developing a successful data story requires a team that may include reporters, editors, graphic artists, and developers.

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    This document provides guidance for data journalists on how to develop a data story from idea to final story. It outlines four key steps: 1) determining what statements or hypotheses you want to make with the data; 2) identifying what variables are needed to make those statements; 3) finding out who collects those variables; and 4) obtaining the data. It then discusses cleaning and analyzing the data by looking for patterns using tools like Excel functions and pivot tables. Finally, it notes that developing a successful data story requires a team that may include reporters, editors, graphic artists, and developers.

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    This document provides guidance for data journalists on how to develop a data story from idea to final story. It outlines four key steps: 1) determining what statements or hypotheses you want to make with the data; 2) identifying what variables are needed to make those statements; 3) finding out who collects those variables; and 4) obtaining the data. It then discusses cleaning and analyzing the data by looking for patterns using tools like Excel functions and pivot tables. Finally, it notes that developing a successful data story requires a team that may include reporters, editors, graphic artists, and developers.

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    DATA JOURNALISM:

    FROM IDEA TO STORY


    Steve Doig
    Cronkite School of Journalism,
    Arizona State University
    steve.doig@asu.edu
    @sdoig

    Why do data journalism?
    Finding data story ideas
    datadrivenjournalism.net/
    IREs ExtraExtra feed
    theguardian.com/news/datablog
    Informants and whistleblowers
    Read documents
    Work backwards from your idea!
    What statements do you want to make?
    What variables are needed to make those
    statements?
    Who would collect data with those
    variables?
    How will you get the data from the
    collector?

    1. Statements?
    The lede of your story is your hypothesis
    Think of bullet points as your statements
    Examples for a crime and courts story:
    Crime has increased/decreased X % since...
    The X per 100.000 violent crime rate of Y City is the worst ...
    An average of X drivers are arrested every day for DWI...
    Robberies peak between X and Y oclock on Z day...
    Only X % of reported crimes result in arrests...
    One out of every X vehicles registered in Y City gets stolen ...
    The average sentence from Judge X for robbery is Y years...

    2. Variables needed?
    Columns are the variables
    Rows are records
    Two main kinds of variables
    Categorical: Sex, city, postal
    code, type of crime, etc...
    Numeric: Age, cost, population,
    weight, arrests, etc...
    Example: variables for crime
    and courts story
    Type of crime, population, date,
    time, location, number of
    victims, arrest made?,
    disposition, judge, sentence...
    3. Who collects those variables?
    4. Get the data!
    Public records tools
    Data formats?
    Avoid PDFs
    Avoid PDFs...but if necessary...
    Convert to .*xls with:
    Acrobat Pro
    Zamzar
    CometDocs
    (many others)


    ...NOW WHAT??
    YOU HAVE DATA...
    Clean the data
    Data cleaning tools
    Look for patterns
    Excel tools
    Sort
    Filter
    Functions
    Pivot tables
    Brain tools math and statistics
    Brain tools math and statistics
    Friday 1130-1300 (Hotel Sangallo)
    EJC MOOC free!!
    Data journalism story elements
    Data journalism story elements
    Data journalism team
    You
    Other reporters
    Editors
    Graphic artists
    Photographers
    Videographers
    Page designers
    Web designers
    App developers
    Other DDJ workshops
    Questions??

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