This presentation by Content Manager Alan Cairns examines what quality content means and how public data can be used to produce interesting and insightful stories.

1. Data and
Content
Production
Alan Cairns

2. The C word

7. “Opendata is a global movement with enormous
potential tocreate moreaccountable, efficient,
responsive, and effective governments andbusinesses,
andtospur economic growth”
-G8OpenDataCharter,June2013

8. Principle1:OpenDatabyDefault
“Werecognise the importance of open data and wewill
establish an expectation that all government data be
published openly by default.”
-G8OpenDataCharter,June2013

9. http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/directory

14. Is data visualisation
enough? Yes
No

15. Data
journalism is
the new punk

20. misattributed to Benjamin
Disraeli (1804-1881)
“There are three
kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and
statistics.”

21. Top ten least-trusted professions
1. Journalists7%
- Politicians7%
3. Bankers11%
4. Estateagents11%
5. Builders19%
6. Civilservants25%
7. Accountants29%
8. Lawyers35%
9. Engineers56%
10. Teachers69%

22. Public relations vs.
Journalism

23. @LanCairns