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Analytic Journalism and Decoding the Political Race(s)
"Newspapers are a 'morning line' tip sheet.
Tom JohnsonInstitute for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico“Three Tuesdays @ SF Complex”Tuesday, 30 Sept. 2008
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Analytic Journalism?
Analytic Journalism: Uses a variety of qualitative and
quantitative tools and methods to measure the status & change of phenomena, primarily those involving people and their environment and context.
Results of measures and analysis drive creation and telling of news.
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Example: Bill Dedman’s “Analytic Journalism and Campaign Contributions”
Illustrates basic “theory of AJ process” Data In Analysis Information Out
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IAJ Cornerstones
General Systems Theory Complex Adaptive Systems
Statistics Visual Statistics/Infographics Simulation Modeling
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IAJ Activities
Introducing journalists to arithmetic Research “new” disciplines and
methods for journalists to use Research the impact of the Digital
Revolution on journalism Always work globally
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Candidates Use the Internet
Web site Fund raising Email Online ads Webcasts of events Blogs and podcasts Take polls and
surveys Communicate with
press
Television ads on the official site
Campaign web video on other sites
Participate in social networking sites
Opposition research Manage field
operations Text messaging
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Data In
Data In - Interviews
- Documents- Previous stories- Photos- Maps- Infographics- Quantitative Data
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Analysis
Data In
Analysis- Make outlines- Hand-drawn flowcharts- Rough drafts- Minimal arithmetic
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Data Out
Data In - Interviews
- Documents- Previous stories- Photos- Maps- Infographics- Quantitative Data
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Voters Use the Internet
Find out about all candidates and issues Contribute to candidates Organize for and against candidates and
issues Tell their friends/family about political
issues Post their own opinions in blogs Post video and audio related to candidates Rate posted videos Create their own sites Use social network sites
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Objectives:
Don’t tell me what you feel, show me what you know!
Data-driven analysis and argument Tools/skills to find the data. And
then find it again. Tools to get the data off the web
page and into… Analytic tools to help make sense of
the data.
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Objectives:
1st Tuesday, 30 Sept. 2008"Newspapers are a 'morning line' tip sheet.” Holistic journalism. No, it’s not “All
about story.” DATA, not opinions. Online sites with
demographic & political data. Where do good DATA-driven stories come
from? Sophisticated bookmarks
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Objectives:
2nd Tuesday, 7 Oct. 2008 "How to track the data's flow upstream.“ Who’s behind those sites, anyway? What’s in online data bases and how did
that data get there? How good, i.e. clean, is the data?
1st Tuesday, 30 Sept. 2008 "Newspapers are a 'morning line' tip sheet.”
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Objectives:
1st Tuesday, 30 Sept. 2008"Newspapers are a 'morning line' tip sheet.”
2nd Tuesday, 7 Oct. 2008 "How to track the data's flow upstream.“
3nd Tuesday, 7 Oct. 2008“How to make sense of those numbers?“ More on getting the data off the web
PDFs, CSV & importing and exporting Simple arithmetic and simple
spreadsheet tips
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What we’re aiming for today
Major changes in datasphere Open Source Web 2.0 (aka “Cloud Computing”)
Effective search-and-keep tools Refining and refined search engines
(Hot Tip: Google ain’t the answer.)
Look at some non-text-only web sites Enrich your research Bring new levels of truth, detail, verisimilitude
to your writing
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What’s going on in the “datasphere”?
Open Source People writing applications, add-ons,
widgets for FREE Web 2.0
Applications moving from your computer hard drive to cyberspace Places more “intellectual” demands on the
browser and browser extensions/add-ons Broadband demand loads
Be careful in cyberspace! http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/
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What all this means to writers
Datasphere is constantly changing Need tools to navigate
constantly changing datasphere We can be better at what we do if we
constantly adapt to those changes
Data In Analysis Info Out
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How to navigate cyberspace?
#1 tool set: pencil and paper Current - and updated - browsers
On how many of your computers? Do you need portability? (USB drives)
Bookmark and note-keeping apps Sophisticated, flexible search
engines “Invisible web” resources
What’s behind the closed digital doors?
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Alternative Web Browsers
Major Browsers: Firefox, Opera, Safari
More Cross-Platform Browsers: Mozilla and Flock
Windows Browsers: K-Meleon Macintosh Browsers: Camino,
OmniWeb and iCab Linux Browsers: Konqueror, Galeon
and Epiphany
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All of these ALT browsers feature:
Tabbed browsing; automatic updates Modern web pages with HTML, CSS, SSL,
and JavaScript Cookies and cookie management Plugins and Java Ad blocking and/or pop-up blocking Download Managers Integrated Search Favorites/Bookmarks and import (and
export)
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Effective search-and-keep tools
Establish your criteria Are tools browser specific or generic? Bookmarks on YOUR hard drive and/or in
the digital cloud Degree of control Make folders and sub-folders Annotate Add tag words Import/export entries E-mail full or partial set of bookmarks
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Finding bookmark utilities
Google Search words: [+free +bookmark +programs]
Surfpack http://freebookmark.surfpack.com/ (scroll
down to see list)
Tucows (keyword: "bookmark") Windows has 235 hits. Mac has 26
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Evaluation sites and tools
Search Engine Directoryhttp://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html
Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Faceoff -- http://www.
readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_faceoff.php
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Some major Bookmark tools
FireFox’s Bookmarks Only fair in capture (i.e. difficult to annotate).
Good organization after capture: “Organize Bookmarks” Good export. Install “FoxMarks” extension to synch multiple computers.
Scrapbook (Firefox add-on) Pros: Save Web pages or parts of. Major features
are: Save Web site hotlinks and other file format documents (i.e. PDF); Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks; Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection. Good highlight and annotation tools. Cons: can’t synch to online or other computers. Difficult to tag and save in multi-folders.
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Some major Bookmark tools
Furl.net Opens Java window sometimes slowly. Good
annotation and tagging. Private or shared links. “Save and e-mail” feature.
del.icio.us Allows access to the same bookmarks from
any computer; add bookmarks from anywhere. Use tags (i.e. keywords) to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. [Well, maybe.]
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Some major Bookmark tools
Diigo.comTJ’s current favorite
Zotero.orgStrong tool for building bibliographies. Only works with Firefox.
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Note-taking tools
Criteria? Just one desktop or multiple? Browser accessible? Synchronization? Export to ????
Backup storage flashdrive, HD or web “locker”?
E-mail to yourself or others? Receive notes sent via phone - text or
pics? “Search within” functions?
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Social bookmarks jumpstation
3spots bloghttp://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/01/all-social-that-can-bookmark.html - annotation
Here are over 200 social bookmarking services! Then see here to see over 300 digg clones!
Digg tools = Social web applications with an UP-YES or UP/DOWN-YES/NO voting system.
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Major note-taking tools
Google Notebook for Firefox/IE Web-based Organize your notes.
Keep notes organized by creating multiple notebooks or divide a single notebook into sections. Rearrange notes by dragging-and-dropping from one section or notebook to another.
Add your own thoughts.Click the "New note" button; start typing to add text notes to your notebook, or click the "Add comment" link within a note to add comments to clippings you've collected.
Search the full text of your notebooks.Easily find any information in your notebooks using the search box at the top of the page.
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Major note-taking tools
Jot+Notes www.kingstairs.com/jot/jot4writers.html Many rich and customizable features, but only on YOUR
desktop. (Has good export tools.) Has a plugin for Google Desktop Search which will
include Jot+ Notes notefiles in your search results.
Evernote - http://evernote.com/about/what_is_en/ Check it out, but it’s just in “beta” Let me know if you
want an invitation. Looks promising, but we’ll see.
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First lesson of online research!
Have a web-search strategy UCB “Five-Step Search Strategy”
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
Understand how the search engine(s) work Google: Always begin at “Advanced
Search” and “Advanced Search Tips” YahooMore”All Search Services” Ask.com Advanced Search Tips
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Smart searching
Always begin by reading Search Engine Tips/Help/Advanced…
Google.com
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The Deep - “Invisible” - Web #1
Deep Web Research 2008http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2008.htmMarcus P. Zillman: “The Deep Web covers [approx.] 900 billion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. Search engines currently locate approximately 20 billion pages. “This article and guide is designed to give you the resources you need to better understand the history of the deep web research, as well as various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find those key sources of information nuggets only found by understanding how to search the "deep web".
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Navigating the “InvisibleWeb”
Start with reference librarians UC Berkeley Library’s excellent site
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html Note search examples for Google and Yahoo keywords
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Prime sites for text research
The New York Times Archive (1851-
Story on Mokelumne Hill “A California Story”
Historical Newspaper and Magazine databases
Internet library of Early Journalshttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Nineteenth Century in Printhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html
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Prime sites for text research
U.S. News Archives on the Webhttp://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
International News Archives on the Webhttp://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/intarchives.htm
British Library Newspapershttp://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Newspapers Around the World on the Internethttp://www.bl.uk/collections/world.html
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Newspaper Archives
NewspaperArchive.com $$$http://www.newspaperarchive.com/
PaperOfRecord.comGlobal pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form.http://www.paperofrecord.com/
ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm
Wikipedia: List of online newspaper archiveshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online
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Book: “Newspaper Archive Resources”
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Prime sites for image research
Library of Congress “American Memory”http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
LoC maps and bird’s eye viewshttp://tinyurl.com/5cfmec
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Teasing meaning from images
Timeline of Art HistoryPhotos of Édouard Baldus https://metropolitanmuseum.org/toah/hd/bald/ho_1994.137.htm#
San Francisco c.1855http://sanfran1855.notlong.com/ http://sfomontgomeryblock.notlong.com/
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Online geography
Google Mapswww.google.com/maps Street map, street level photos of some cities, aerial
photo, topography
Google Earthhttp://earth.google.com/ Fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps,
terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. Need to download program.
Maplandiahttp://www.maplandia.com/
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Online Geography
“Amateur" historians Santa Fe Trail Research -
http://www.santafetrailresearch.com/ Aerial photo links for most of the
major sites and trail ruts on the Santa Fe Trailhttp://www.santafetrailresearch.com/spacepix/0ur-space-link-page.html
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Quick summary
Major changes in datasphere Open Source Web 2.0 (aka “Cloud Computing”)
Effective search-and-keep tools Refining and refined search engines
(Hot Tip: Google ain’t the answer.)
Look at some text and non-text web sites Enrich your research Bring new levels of truth, detail, verisimilitude
to your writing
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2008 Gold Rush Writer's ConferenceMokelumne Hill, Calif.May 2-4, 2008
Discovering The World From Your Laptop
Tom JohnsonInstitute for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico
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Go2Web20.net
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Search Engine Guidehttp://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html
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Search Engine Guide #2-News/Media Search Engines
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Google Earth – San Francisco
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Google Earth – 1495 Sutter St
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Review
Data In Analysis Info Out Think about process & forms of data
plus methods
Need for new tools Browsing Book-marking Note-taking Smart search strategies
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For next week – 7 Oct.
Go to workshop wiki - http://ajandpolraces.pbwiki.com
“Interrogate” the sub-pages, their links and the data in those links.
List 5 story ideas - based on the data – that could be done
Find 5 “vested interested” sites that have data pertaining to political campaigns.
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