Esa MäkinenNews Editor for Data JournalismHelsingin Sanomat

Make Data Jounalism Quickly

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I was brought up in three dead languages - Fortran, Pascal and GW

Basic.

There is no newspaper in Death Star (Img: Sean Fallon)

Tablets are present in Star Trek

Apparently multiple displays in one unit

No newspaper in Babylon 5, Television is present

Television-like interactive features in Starship Troopers

The life span of mediums

2075Starship Troopers

2257Babylon 5

2364Star Trek TNG

3000Star Wars

2013Present

Paper Interactive TV

Tablet Nothing

DATA IS THE NEW THING

IN DATAJOURALISM

Data is not a stat or a graph

Stat Data

Open data meets all of the following criteria

1) It is data2) It is published in internet3) It is readable by machine

(Excel, not PDF)4) It is published with open license

Data journalism is made by triplets

Journalists interviews the data

Coder writes the program and does the

math

Graphic designer does the magic of visualization

Datajournalism in Helsingin Sanomat Data Desk

JOURNALISTS THINK

THROUGH TEMPLATES

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/a1369811054209

http://www.hs.fi/a1380246171996

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1305677755208

Traffic map of Helsinki http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/HSfin+ruuhkakartta+n%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4%C3%A4+liikenteen+pullonkaulat/a1305610085608

Ask for comments on fourfold table http://dynamic.hs.fi/2012/nelikenttapohja/

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1305635815432

http://www.hs.fi/talous/a1305713537729

BIG PROJECTS

Voting advice application

The user answers to 30 questions

You’ll get a suggestion: Who to vote?

We have a value map of City Councils.

Who voted for and against the Hotel Project

The Tax Machine

ECOSYSTEM

HS Open #1, march 2011

Campaign funding was published

Bioinformatics researcher: ”This look like network data”. Cytoscape.

Analysis of the power structures revealed by campaign funds

DATAVIZ IS THE NEW SCOOP:

CONTENT THAT CANNOT BE COPIED

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