Data Driven Journalism – Survey

The notion of data driven journalism appears to have some sort of traction at the moment, not least as a recognised use context of some very powerful data handling tools, as Simon “Guardian Datastore” Rogers appearance at Google I/O suggests:

As I start to doodle ideas for an open online course on something along the lines of “visually, data” to run October-December, data journalism is going to provide one of the major scenarios for working through ideas. So I guess it’s in my interest to promote this European Journalism Centre: Survey on Data Journalism to try to find out what might actually be useful to journalists…;-)

[T]he survey Data-Driven Journalism – Your opinion aims to gather the opinion of journalists on the emerging practice of data-driven journalism and their training needs in this new field. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. The results will be publicly released and one of the entries will win a EUR 100 Amazon gift voucher

I think the EJC are looking to run a series of data-driven journalism training activities/workshops too, so it’s worth keeping an eye on the EJC site if #datajourn is your thing…

PS related: the first issue of Google’s “Think Quarterly” magazine was all about data: Think Data

PPS Data in journalism often gets conflated with data visualisation, but that’s only a part of it… Where the visulisation is the thing, then here’s a few things to think about…