Week 6

By now you have read at least four texts on your journalism project. You should be getting to understand your topic at a broad level. For the next step in your process, you will need to collect hard data on your topic. 

This week you will need to find the raw data that backs up your case. If you are talking about burglary, you will need to find the crime records that prove your argument, if you are talking about climate, you will need to find the weather data. 

I’ve collected some information to help you in the data portion of this process.

What is data-driven journalism?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jul/28/data-journalism

How do you go about getting data?

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/getting_data.html

Once you have some data, how do you go about making sense of it?

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/understanding_data.html

Data journalism examples: 

https://www.import.io/post/8-fantastic-examples-of-data-journalism/

Lastly, talk to me if you need help finding data for your story! This is a great time to schedule a meeting during my office hours.