“Data journalism is about much more than providing numbers for a story. The data team’s job descriptions include the phrase ‘aggressively collaborative.’ In practice, that means we work together with reporters throughout a story—we’re involved as it develops, rather than delivering a data table or numbers for an article when it’s published.”
As the general election results started to trickle in, it fast became clear that things weren’t going as expected. At 1:42am an email pinged into our inboxes from the national news editor. “Blimey O’Reilly – data team, check this out when you can,” it read. The email linked to a tweet which said that Theresa May had lost every marginal constituency that she had visited.
Author Gelo Gonzales
News Site Rappler
Date Published February 6, 2018
Article Link Data journalism: from information to insight in unpredicted times
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