This document discusses how data can help journalists find and tell stories. It notes that data can reveal patterns, trends, structures, differences, changes, and outliers that help uncover stories. It also explains that data distributions, trends and correlations, and changing perspectives can provide insight. Finally, it stresses that properly analyzing and interpreting data takes time, but can reveal stories if readers spend sufficient time understanding the information in the data.

1. MPs’ Expenses et al.
Tony Hirst
@psychemedia

2. “Data” helps
you FIND the
story

3. Pattern
Trends
Structure
Differences
Change
Outliers
Top & Bottom

4. Data Distributions
Outliers

5. Trends and (anti)correlations...

6. Changing
Perspective

7. My introduction
to “Data Driven
Journalism”

10. Macroscopes

11. A&B~C
B&C~A
C ~ A&B

14. Structure

17. Writing
Diagrams

19. “Data” can
also TELL a
story…

20. IF you know how to read it
IF you spend the time reading it

21. If a picture is worth a thousand
words,
and a thousand words takes 5-10
minutes to read,
maybe that’s how long you should
spend reading the picture…

22. So how can
data tell a
story?

23. http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/Structure&Plot.htm

26. Changing
Perspective

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