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