"El lector de “La navaja suiza del reportero” recorrerá una selección de los principales casos de periodismo de datos a nivel internacional y conocerá las herramientas digitales más usadas por las mejores redacciones del mundo para limpiar, analizar y visualizar grandes cantidades de informa
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ción. Desde las más conocidas como Open Refine, creada por Google hace más de un lustro y una de mis favoritas, hasta otras más complejas como el Neo4J, utilizada por el equipo de OjoPúblico -este año, en plena campaña electoral- para crear un especial inédito sobre el financiamiento de los partidos políticos y las campañas presidenciales del Perú en la última década. En el manual de casi 100 páginas -una suerte de crónica sobre los reporteros en tránsito al uso de la tecnología- el lector descubrirá que los periodistas de investigación ya no pueden trabajar aislados como lobos solitarios. La simbiosis creada con los escritores de código ha llevado esta profesión a horizontes desconocidos en la exploración de documentos que antes hubieran sido imposibles de analizar por cualquier medio de comunicación en el mundo." (Presentación)
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"We assume you know how to do human rights research but wish to expand on your knowledge of how to use digital data and online media for documentation purposes. This is a broad introduction that will set you on the right path to asking your own questions and seeking your own solutions. We aim to ins
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pire critical thinking, rather than be prescriptive about what specific software, devices, or platforms should be used, since these evolve constantly. We have vetted resources and collected further reading on the areas tackled in this report, which you can find online at https://engn.it/datnav. We imagine you are a human rights researcher, journalist, student, policymaker or philanthropist who wants to: boost traditional research and documentation (interviews, surveys, and spreadsheets) by learning to incorporate digital data; build knowledge and expertise in advance of the next emergency to avoid the reactionary collection of data while an event or violation is in full swing; understand the opportunities, limits, and risks of digital data, as well as when and how to seek expert advice to help you achieve your goals; overcome fear of digital data and technology, which is already in heavy use by your counterparts. With better tools, you know you can be more efficient." (Page 9)
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"Data has the potential to help communities understand their biggest challenges – why people become sick or well, why development initiatives succeed or fail, how government actions align with citizens’ priorities. However, most people do not have the skills or inclination to engage with data di
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rectly. That’s where data journalists and the open data community come in. This report looks at the Internews Approach to data journalism as well as data journalism in Myanmar’s emerging open data community." (Internews website)
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"This document has been created to provide a broad overview of big data usage in humanitarian organisations and general guidance on how organisations can incorporate it into operations. It describes big data and its role within the humanitarian sector, offers a categorisation of the large variety of
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big data types, highlights benefits and risks of incorporating big data into response, identifies policy and ethical considerations for the organisation, and provides example materials organisations can use when starting the process of incorporating big data. The goal is to create dialogue and generate structure in the conversation among decision makers, data scientists, and volunteers and technical communities." (Executive summary)
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"Es ist inzwischen nahezu banal festzustellen, dass Digitalisierung für den Journalismus gleichermaßen Herausforderung und Chance darstellt. Die Überführung von Geschäftsmodellen und Wertschöpfungsketten in ein digitales Zeitalter und neue digitale Werkzeuge, mit denen sich Darstellungsformen
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und Inhalte weiterentwickeln lassen, zeigen dies sehr eindrucksvoll. In vielen Bereichen wird inzwischen deutlich, dass es nicht nur um eine neue Infrastruktur geht, sondern um eine grundsätzliche Neuorientierung des Journalismus. Die Reihe »Groundbreaking Journalism« vom iRights.Lab und dem Vodafone Institut hat eine Plattform zur Diskussion dieses Themas geboten. Gemeinsames Ziel dabei war, die Aufmerksamkeit auf den »Maschinenraum« des Journalismus zu lenken, wo die Formate und Inhalte entstehen, deren Produktion sich durch digitale Werkzeuge grundlegend ändert." (Vorwort)
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"A obra apresenta um conjunto de ferramentas de investigação de dados na internet. Ao dominar os caminhos para processar digitalmente informações públicas é necessário compreender os contextos em que elas se inserem. Por isso a classificação e o cruzamento de dados têm se tornado cada vez
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mais complexos, exigindo outros tipos de competências dos jornalistas." (Apresentação)
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"Acknowledgement of the increasingly central role of data in decision making at all levels of society is increasingly visible. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for “A New Data Revolution” that would help track progress toward development goals and ensure the inclus
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ion of all people in human development. But for data to truly forge inclusiveness in development, multilateral organizations, governments, NGOs, companies, and citizens will increasingly need “infomediaries” to chase down and make sense of the most relevant data of interest to people. This new data can be an important building block for creating sustainable media institutions, stimulating wider demand for fact-based policy and decision making, and measuring progress. Today, more transparency in budgets, spending data, or service provision statistics can likewise be a critical raw material for enterprising media [...] But all of these promises will not be realized just by training journalists and providing them with the latest digital tools. The specter of all of the other well-known challenges to practicing journalism–censorship, attacks on journalists, criminal libel laws, and collapsing business models–is a reminder that in the absence of a stable, enabling, and supporting environment, data journalism is likely to remain an unfulfilled promise. The international development community should work more closely with media developers to ensure that the critical role of media is well understood and factored into overall development planning." (Conclusion)
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"This guide follows a regional conference hosted by FAIR during September 2012 in Nairobi (Kenya) where more than 40 journalists, editors and media representatives discussed issues around ‘War on Terror in East Africa: security, elections and transparency. The programme also combined regional case
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study presentations with technical skills training. Ron Nixon (New York Times and founder of the Ujima project) provided insight on ‘how to follow government spending through public information’. His session demonstrated there is a lot of data about African state spending freely available on the internet, such as US department databases, service contracts, legal documents and US aid agency websites. Although termed ‘classified’ by some Ministries, data on government programmes can be obtained via the US Freedom of Information Act, for example. The selection of websites and documents presented by Ron Nixon at the Nairobi workshop, and also contained in this guide, is meant to enable investigative journalists to dig deeper using various tools and sources without getting into trouble. The ultimate objective is to show how data from external sources can be used by African journalists to expose forms of secret lobbying and foreign aid that do not help development." (Foreword)
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"This book is a valuable collection of tips and techniques, covering both data as a source of journalism and as a tool with which the story is told. It starts with a general introduction on the main characteristics of data journalism, gives an insight into its practical relevance in the newsroom, an
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d presents inspiring case studies on elections, riots, school performance, corruption and other issues. It then introduces methods of data sourcing from open data portals, through freedom of information laws, and by crowdsourcing, followed by practical advice on how to extract and interpret information from raw data. The final section on "delivering data" shows how data visualisation helps to tell stories and provides tips on building news apps and feeding open data platforms." (CAMECO Update 2-2012)
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"[...] este documento [...] busca aportar varias reflexiones al periodismo de investigación impactado por la era digital, en un contexto como el latinoamericano. Las incógnitas y los desafíos que yacen en este reto se presentan en las siguientes páginas, a través de ejemplos mundiales y latinoa
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mericanos. El texto considera las bases mismas del oficio, el contexto en el que este se desarrolla y la manera en que periodistas en diversos puntos del globo han entendido la innovación de las tecnologías recientes para potenciar su forma de ver el mundo, su forma de hacer reportería y de relacionarse con las audiencias. Las ideas presentadas en este manual buscan servir de aporte, siendo conscientes de que apenas nos encontramos en los albores de la era digital y es mucho lo que falta por recorrer. Es fácil predecir que en ese camino se decantarán muchas cosas que hoy son fascinantes. Con el tiempo, algunas de ellas se verán como obsoletas. Es por eso que la apuesta conceptual de este documento es por aquellos aspectos que como resultado de la era digital ya están generando cambios en la forma como se hace el periodismo, prácticas que a juzgar por sus tempranos resultados, ya están generando una identidad de lo que será el periodismo en este milenio." (Introducción)
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"Learn how to use fundamental news reporting and writing skills, from gathering sources and tracking information, to interviewing and pursuing investigative stories on a variety of beats with the Investigative Reporter's Handbook." (Publisher description)