6.Skills necessary for working with data
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These skills are no different from basic journalistic skills. However, in the last 20 years, the effective use of data that has been digitized and growing with the Internet every day has become important.
Leaks are one of the most recent examples. Journalists have discovered that they can benefit from unstructured data. In addition, this situation has improved the awareness of cooperation in journalism. In this context, it would be helpful to explain who is the data journalist and what skills a data journalist should have? Data Journalist is the ability to think of creative ways to channel data. Journalist can interview a person, and journalist can interview spreadsheets. Another definition a data journalist is a person who collects, cleans, analyzes, visualizes, and tells news using data journalism tools. The person with these skills defines his / her profession as a data journalist, as in the examples given below.
Data Journalist Skills Ability to perform research Breaking news and developing stories Researching and analysing valuable data for features, reports and events Using data trends a basis for news stories Identifying new data sources and trends Creating ‘follow up’ and analysis pieces using fresh data As a result, the passion for working with data is one of the most important motivations and skills for the data journalist. So Nick Routley says ,“Having a basic knowledge of how statistics work, being able to assess white-paper and report methodologies, and a sense of where to find reliable data-sets are all good skills to manage your way in data journalism.”
Screenshoot : Numerous data skills including: negotiating for and obtaining data, records and documents; cleaning data; building a data scraper; data analysis using Excel and SQL; mapping for analysis; building a data application; how to tell a story from data. Data analysis -> Excel, R, a Relational database management system like MySQL/Postgres, Python/Ruby/node.js, QGIS. Data cleaning -> Tabula, OpenRefine. The cloud of skills you see below is the tools and skills of data journalists in projects that have received the data journalism award for 2018.
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