Data in the newsroom

Harkanwal Singh (@kamal_hothi)

In late 2011, at the Waikato Times...

Data what?

Q. So, what do you actually do?

A. Let me show you

Or, the rise of the nerds in the newsroom

A personal journey

Getting hired as 'data journalist' at Stuff.co.nz, then moving to the Herald and creating a 'data editor' role

The importance of community - learning from Keith Ng, Thomas Lumley, Chris McDowall, and so many others

Reader driven journalism - being responsive and responsible

Or, unreasonable aspirations of unreasonable people

Or, why this is kind of like visiting the mothership

Crowdsourcing how you can help us even more

@kamal_hothi Thank you for the free data! It goes unsaid, but the effort is appreciated.
— Andrew Chen (@andrewmeows) August 4, 2015

If people honestly think, Excel is the future....well, then we're all in trouble

Or, people who almost never use Excel