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Michael J. Berens presents the final part of the free, two-day webinar, "Data Journalism 101," hosted by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. For access to the webinar materials, visit http://bit.ly/datajourn101. For more information about training for business journalists, please visit http://businessjournalism.org
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Data Journalism 101 (Part II)
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at ASU
Michael J. Berens – The Seattle Times
Meet my editor – a guy who thought a special project was something that took two hours instead
of one
Database types • Obtained from a public agency or other
institutional source (Part I)]
• Scrapped from the web or digital document – copy and paste (Part I)
• Created from scratch using any mixture of paper records
• Hybrid data analysis – layering existing data with your own database
Poll Question: Have you ever created a database from scratch?
Every database begins with a single cell
Cells, fields and headers, oh my
Segregation is good
Address number from street name
Middle initial from first name
First name from last name
Basic fields
Bad Sorry, dude
Good Not bad, grasshopper
Better
Brilliant. You rock!
Hiding in plain sight • A health care professional was administratively
charged with sexual misconduct with patients.
• His punishment?
• He was only allowed to treat women age 50 or older (re: public record posted on Wa. Dept. of Health website)
Basic Fields • License #
• Name
• Occupation
• Offense type
• Dates of action
• Sexual misconduct; unprofessional conduct; moral turpitude
Paper to Excel
Paper to Excel
Poll Question: What is your suggestion
for a unique field?
Tapping the power of Excel
• Sorting
• Filtering
• Basic calculations
Pick the column
Alphabetized by name
Filtering
Chevron marks
Filtered by profession
Calculations • Always begins with an equal
sign • Basic math structure using
names of cells • =A1+A2
Data training resources
Investigative Reporters and Editors: www.ire.org
http://www.ire.org/nicar/
Reynolds Center http://businessjournalism.org
http://businessjournalism.org/registration/llc/
Keep the trash – everything has value
Look for signature cases
The strategy • Get the basic data
• Get the basic files
• Create a spreadsheet – add on categories
• Dive deeper for paper records – understand the system
Elephants and zoos
Adult family homes
The federal government has launched a grant program that pays states to relocate seniors.
They call it “rebalancing.”
Poll Question: What would you do with
this information?
Develop your nose for data