Michael J. Berens presents the final part of the free, two-day webinar, "Data Journalism 101," hosted by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
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1. Data Journalism 101
(Part II)
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business
Journalism at ASU
Michael J. Berens – The Seattle Times
2.
3. Meet my editor – a
guy who thought a
special project was
something that took
two hours instead
of one
4. Database types
• Obtained from a public agency or other
institutional source (Part I)]
• Scrapped from the web or digital document –
copy and paste (Part I)
• Created from scratch using any mixture of
paper records
• Hybrid data analysis – layering existing data
with your own database
15. Hiding in plain sight
• A health care professional was administratively
charged with sexual misconduct with patients.
• His punishment?
• He was only allowed to treat women age 50 or
older (re: public record posted on Wa. Dept. of
Health website)
34. Data training resources
Investigative Reporters and Editors:
www.ire.org
http://www.ire.org/nicar/
Reynolds Center
http://businessjournalism.org
http://businessjournalism.org/registration/llc/
39. The strategy
• Get the basic data
• Get the basic files
• Create a spreadsheet – add on
categories
• Dive deeper for paper records –
understand the system
44. The federal government has launched a grant
program that pays states to relocate seniors.
They call it “rebalancing.”
Poll Question:
What would you do with
this information?