NODA2018

Introductory remarks to NODA 2018 by Helena Bengtsson, who will inspire the audience by showcasing her own journey to the world of data journalism.

Unfortunately, Derek Willis of ProPublica is stuck in the States due to a passport problem . But we are proud to present Fergus Bell for he opening key address of NODA 2018! He was working together with Derek with the ground-breaking collaborative project Electionland , one of the largest social newsgathering operations ever performed over the course of one day. More than 600 journalism students and experienced journalists monitored social media for any kind of indicator of voter suppression on 8 November 2016. In this session Fergus will talk about how it was set-up, managed and carried out and share the lessons learned along the way. He'll also talk about how the work has inspired further collaborative projects including initiatives around elections in the US, UK, Sweden and Mexico.
(Derek will join us through a videolink in MB416 at 12:20!)

Kristoffer Örstadius, Dagens Nyheter has been the rising star in Swedish journalism over the last couple of years. His data-driven stories, where he uses agents and programming, have forced ministers to leave office and revealed new facts about the Swedish housing crisis, immigration and school system. He will tell us how he managed to do his ground-breaking stories and still leave office at 5pm every day.

A series of 5-minute lightning talks on various topics, more or less related to data journalism. If you want to present something, please send a mail to info@noda.se with a title and a short description.

Information by signed up speakers:

The Data Journalism Den – The new hub for the data journalism community
Teemu Henriksson

The Data Journalism Den is a new global hub from the Global Editors Network, dedicated to serving the international data journalism community through the collaborative exchange of data, tools, and resources. The Den is open to all journalists, developers, designers, and organisations committed to the practice and development of data journalism. It is completely free.
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Crossing borders. What happens when you set up an European data journalism network
By Lorenzo Ferrari

The European media landscape is fractured along national lines, yet we all tend to be invested by similar phenomena. Data journalism could help overcoming this segmentation, by facilitating multi-country analyses, production of multilingual contents, transnational collaboration, and so on. We've been working on this for a while, and we've learned a couple of things.
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The gamification of journalism: the potential of play in news
By Raul Ferrer Conill

The importance of trying to understand this development stems from the different roles that digital games and news have in contemporary Western societies. While journalism is often regarded as the main source of information for the public to act as citizens, digital games predominantly remain considered as entertaining media. But are they? The nature of journalism and games provide a room for interaction in which both worlds can coexist in meaningful ways. Gamification, widely defined as the use of game thinking and game design techniques in non-gaming contexts has been widely implemented in digital services as an attempt to attract and increase user engagement. This type of persuasive technology focuses on tracking, quantifying, and individualizing behavior, placing the user at the center of the experience by providing tools for self-reflection, and exploiting the motivational aspects of games to drive action. In this talk I present four major examples in which news organizations have incorporated gamification in their digital outlets. Through an assessment of the cases of The Guardian, Bleacher/Report, Times of India, and Al Jazeera, I discuss how the pros and cons, and potential outcome of gamifying journalism.
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Accessibility & Data Visualization: Dynamic Charts That Can Talk to Everyone 
By Michele Joel

We have a moral obligation to make content accessible to everyone. Screen readers are helpful by describing a static image, but how can screen readers communicate dynamic charts or describe the chart findings rather than just what the values display? The Data Visualization industry is rapidly evolving not only for those individuals who need accessible screen readers but for everyone. With Alexa and podcasts' popularity, the trend is to consume news and media quickly through audible means. Let's discuss this new paradigm when Data Visualization turns into Data Communication.
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The decline of left and center-left parties in Europe. Looking for reasons
By Marco Giannini

The current political debate across European democracies often emphasizes the impressive failure of left and center-left political parties in Legislative elections across the entire continent, and through the last decade. But the roots of such a fall should be sought into the mutating orientation of the left-wing political forces in regards to some crucial topics like work legislation, welfare state, progressive taxation, trade unions legislation, privatizations, and social rights.A loose relation between the more conservative approach emerges, especially in political economy, if we look at how the left parties try to chase liberal voters and how their traditional constituency shift more and more left or simply abstain, dooming those historic social-democrats parties to long minority periods, or to total irrelevance in some countries.Electoral results in 14 countries are crossed with a series of repeated surveys from the European Social Surveys regarding voter turnout, age, youngsters' vote, unemployed people's vote, and other social indicators.The basic questions I'm trying to answer are who intends to vote for those parties, who is not voting for them anymore, and why.

As the the head of the The Bureau Local lab of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Megan will speak about the first year at The Bureau Local and the future of investigative data journalism, which according to her, is both local and collaborative. Megan is one of the UK’s leading data journalists and in her former position as the head of the Times and the Sunday Times data teams, she contributed to the newspapers' reputation in the areas of data mining and analysis and helped bring many issues to the public discourse. 

After three years as editor for the Data Projects team at the Guardian in London, Helena Bengtsson is back to Swedish Television (SVT) where she is leading a new team for advanced data journalists to prepare for the upcoming 2018 election. Helena, who has received Stora Journalistpriset (the Swedish Great Prize for Journalism) twice for her data work, will speak about data journalism at SVT and The Guardian and why data journalism should be aggressively collaborative.