Front Matter
- For the Great Unnamed
- Contributor List
- What This Book Is (And What It Isn’t)
- The Handbook At A Glance
Introduction
- What Is Data Journalism?
- Why Journalists Should Use Data
- Why Is Data Journalism Important?
- Some Favorite Examples
- Data Journalism in Perspective
In The Newsroom
- The ABC’s Data Journalism Play
- Data Journalism at the BBC
- How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works
- Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
- Data Journalism at the Zeit Online
- How to Hire a Hacker
- Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackthons
- Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration
- Our Stories Come As Code
- Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-finished Content for Stakeholder Groups
- Business Models for Data Journalism
Case studies
- The Opportunity Gap
- A 9 Month Investigation into European Structural Funds
- The Eurozone Meltdown
- Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org
- Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding
- Electoral Hack in Realtime
- Data in the News: Wikileaks
- Mapa76 Hackathon
- The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots
- Illinois School Report Cards
- Hospital Billing
- Care Home Crisis
- The Tell-All Telephone
- Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates
- Bus Subsidies in Argentina
- Citizen Data Reporters
- The Big Board for Election Results
- Crowdsourcing the Price of Water
Getting Data
- A Five Minute Field Guide
- Your Right to Data
- Wobbing Works. Use it!
- Getting Data from the Web
- The Web as a Data Source
- Crowdsourcing Data at the Guardian Datablog
- How the Datablog Used Crowdsourcing to Cover Olympic Ticketing
- Using and Sharing Data: the Black Letter, Fine Print, and Reality
Understanding data
- Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps
- Tips for Working with Numbers in the News
- Basic Steps in Working with Data
- The £32 Loaf of Bread
- Start With the Data, Finish With a Story
- Data Stories
- Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice
- Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data
Delivering Data
- Presenting Data to the Public
- How to Build a News App
- News Apps at ProPublica
- Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism
- Using visualizations to Tell Stories
- Designing With Data
- Different Charts Tell Different Tales
- Data visualization DIY: Our Top Tools
- How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang
- Public Data Goes Social
- Engaging People Around Your Data
