Presentation about our Deutsche Welle project at the Global Editors Network Hackathon in Berlin, June 2013. The idea was the winner of that event. (with Cosmin Cabulea, Xiegong Fischer)

1. I PAY THIS
YOU PAY THATCrowdsourcing local costs of living
for easier comparison.

2. I PAY THIS
YOU PAY THATCrowdsourcing local costs of living
for easier comparison.
Global Editors‘Lab
Berlin @zeitonline
June 6.-7., 2013
Team: Deutsche WelleXiegong Fischer, EditorCosmin Cabulea, Development/VisualizationMirko Lornez, Editor/Information Architect

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL PITCH
TECH/IT
DESIGN/GRAPHICS
DEVELOPMENT/PRODUCTION
INTERACTIVITY

4. WHY?
WHAT? HOW?

5. THE WHY:
PEOPLE CARE ABOUT COSTS OF LIVING,
BUT NEWSROOMS OFTEN HAVE NO CLUE.

6. JOURNALISTS NEED TO BE „DATA-AWARE“,
OFFICIAL SOURCES ARE OFTEN:
- TOO OLD
- TOO GENERAL (JUST AVERAGES)
- TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR THE AUDIENCE

7. TECH/IT
WORK STARTED WITH HACKDAY
WE USED FREELY AVAILABLE TOOLS ONLY
SERVER: AMAZON S3
WIREFRAMES: TWITTER BOOTSTRAP
DATA COLLECTION: GOOGLE FORMS, SPREADSHEETS,
DATA WRANGLING: OPEN REFINE, EXCEL, TEXT WRANGLER
VISUALIZATION: D3.JS
COMMUNICATION: TWITTER/FACEBOOK/VINE

8. THERE ARE WEBSITES,
BUT NONE FROM NEWSROOMS

9. THERE ARE WEBSITES,
BUT NONE FROM NEWSROOMS

10. THERE ARE WEBSITES,
BUT NONE FROM NEWSROOMS

11. THERE ARE WEBSITES,
BUT NONE FROM NEWSROOMS

12. THERE ARE WEBSITES,
BUT NONE FROM NEWSROOMS

13. COMPARISON BY „MINUTES OF WORK“ HELPS TO SEE THE
HUGE DIFFERENCES, BASED ON BUYING POWER
HTTP://WWW.ECONOMIST.COM/BLOGS/GRAPHICDETAIL/2012/09/DAILY-CHART-13
CHECK: AVERAGE
VS. HIGHEST/LOWEST

14. DESIGN/GRAPHICS
D3.JS AS TEMPLATE
BULLET CHART AS FORM
QUICK LOGO CREATED WITH KEYNOTE

15. DESIGN/GRAPHICS
D3.JS AS TEMPLATE
BULLET CHART AS FORM
QUICK LOGO CREATED WITH KEYNOTE

16. DATA FROM USERS (CA. 30 RESPONSES/18 HOURS)

17. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE VERSION (THX, XIEGONG)

18. http://
bit.ly/10Vvw3X

19. PROTOTYPE AFTER TWO DAYS
STILL ROUGH, BUT WITH REAL DATA
(CA. 55 TOTAL IN 24 HOURS)

21. INNOVATION, FRESH APPROACH:
CURRENT DATA, REAL PEOPLE, GLOBAL
RESULT
POTENTIALLY GROWING DATABASE,
„OWNED“ BY NEWSROOM
INTERACTION: MULTIPLE WAYS TO
INTERACT WITH USERS, PUBLIC,
RECURRING SOURCE OF REPORTING

23. IDEA
Text
GEN Topic:
Open Source, Global Development
Which
Chart type is
best?
Working
minute as better
comparison
How to get
data?
Google
Form
Testing the
form
English
Chinese
Twitter
Facebook
Calculating
minutes
worked
Prototype
Website
S3

24. THANK YOU.
QUESTIONS?