Telling stories
with data

sjockers.github.io/slides/storyhunt

Where data
comes from

  • FOI requests
  • Open data
  • Leaked data
  • Scraping
  • Digitizing (OCR)
  • Cleaning

Exploring Data

Tools
not graphics

What?

  • Tables
  • Graphs
  • Documents or text corpora
  • etc.

Should this really be public?

Who?

  • Goals (interest in the topic)
  • Data literacy
  • Media consumption habits

How?

Macro: far view

  • The big picture
  • High-level overviews

Micro: near view

  • Individual data points
  • Anecdotes or stories

Macro

Micro

Personalization

Discuss!

sjockers.github.io/slides/storyhunt
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