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Data Journalism: The Art and Science of Data Storytelling
Few Years back, while listening to, one of the technical communication conference speaker, about career transition from, hard core journalism to technical writing, got me interested in art of Data storytelling. It sounds fun telling stories around datasets, as images, texts, news texts, infographics and such other resources, to bring out meaningful information in front of audiences. Data journalism is the art and science of data storytelling, by examining the pattern and statistics of data, for writing and reporting news story. Data journalists research data and create an enriching news story , by joining the dots and providing deeper insights from relevant data. While journalism is the voice of voiceless a media arts tool to join authorities to society; Data Journalism is point of intersection of art and science! Where acquired knowledge through datasets, is applied to create, report and write the meaningful information, for greater reach.
What is Data Journalism?
Data Journalism is an art of telling compelling story through the use of text data, documents, graphics, images and bringing forth the point in a theme. This involves data collection and visualization and showing the importance of this information to a wider audience. For example photography or collage display for Child Education or Global Warming or Saving Ocean Life and so on.
Images here are used as a tool to tell the story, about a theme and bringing forth, the pressing need for, child education and saving mother Earth from Global Warming or saving Marine Life or reducing water pollution.
Data Journalism open new possibilities of creating news stories from vast amount of data and digital information available.
As in journalism the ABC of of Data Journalism are Accuracy, Brevity, Clarity!
Types of Data Journalism
There are five types of data journalism available to interpret data for different purpose and audiences. These include:
Investigative Journalism: This type of journalism involves reporters to investigate a single topic and collect data around it to created relevant story. Topics could be either serious crimes, political or corporate themes…
