Hello,  my name is...

 

Dhrumil Mehta (he/him)

Associate Prof. of Journalism @ Columbia U.

Deputy Director of Tow Center

Visiting Associate Prof of Public Policy @ Harvard Kennedy School

 

dhrumil.mehta@columbia.edu

 @datadhrumil

@dmil

Tow Center

What is Data Journalism?

Empirical Social Science on a Deadline?

Types of Data Stories

Counting Stuff

Answer a question with data

Support/Oppose a hypothesis

Identify a Phenomenon

Identify a Phenomenon

Debunk or Justify Conventional Wisdom

Data-Driven Profile

Lack of Data

Data driven investigative work

Dig for Data

Provide relevant context

Build our own dataset

  • With Code / Scrapers
  • By Hand
  • By Survey Tool

Archiving Data

Explain Calculations

Use Innovative Methodology

Use data to inform traditional reporting

The Rare Datapoint

Challenging Official Data

Huge Data Dump

  • Uber
  • Election Results
  • Census

Acts of Journalism

Data-Driven Storytelling

 

 

 

Data Scraping / Cleaning / Structuring

Building a Database

 

News Quiz

Bots

Internal Workflows

 

Bots

Lets readers see results that FiveThirtyEight deems unexpected

Expectations are calibrated before results ever start coming in.

Open Data

https://www.datajournalismawards.org/project-listing/?project_id=2082

Forecasting

Quantitative Editing

Types Of Data Stories

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