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jazeera. i swear every. day. to. my name is mine to tell it be and i'm a day to journalist my job is to find numbers in all sorts of different places and then turn them into images that people will understand and connect to. i always try to think of ways to connect the subject matter with the visualisation itself so that people can automatically see what the data visualisation is all about. if it's

about me copies being finds in france outdrawn a copy and if it's about the k.k.k. i will draw a k.k.k. hood if it's about sleep odors sleepy face is about the greek economy taking a dive then i'm going to draw a diver i hope that by creating handle illustrations it doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people feel like i'm not smart enough to understand this which is a big problem with i would say traditional dates jonathan. when i create an illustration i don't just assume that because i understand other people understand and i share that illustration with people who don't work in my field whatsoever. that you know my mom sometimes and also whether or not i get it and that really really. and very often their response makes sense to me and then i have to go back to square one. i think one of the things that has in. my back is that. because the language in the way that it was written. and i think

that's one of the things that interests me about number. of people. i think. i think part of the success of far right news outlets is speaking a different language even if it's a language of information and even if it's a language that is not grounded in fact. which. speaks to people in that are. incredibly affected. i've been crying in the street. i've been doing this now for 5 years. 5 years. i kind of know how to do the 101 stuff now and i know how to scan

stuff and i know how to color it i have no idea how to paint and sun i i thought i would give it a try it's just quite. a big 1st try. this study came out early release year about representation although to me kind of quantified the lack of diversity in a really really spectacular way so they looked at the museum collections of 18 major u.s. museums and they found that 75 percent of all of that in those museum collections was made by white and so in the foreground this painting there are $100.00 figures and $75.00 of them white men so in the background there are $189.00 additional figures and there are women and people of color that need to be added to the art scene for it's actually represent the population as a whole. the title of the way is to you hits a city. them and you know that was really relevant.

i worry that without evidence and data sometimes there's too much of an emphasis on the individual right so one person one thing and then one person saying something else and i think one of the powerful things about dates is the end lousy its focus on the issue rather than the individual and that can potentially be quite empowering. in addition to this painting which uses us states i really wanted to do something about u.k. our space is so there are 3416 artists in the tates permanent collection as of the last time that they publish their data and over the you 341625218 women and so my 1st date after after analyzing all of that was to create this which is kind of simple and on the horizontal axis is the year that the artist was born and then the y. axis the percentage of all of those artists that were men or women and what you see over time is that there is some progress so if we had equality right they would

just be a horizontal line through this and you would just see 50 percent men and 50 percent women at any given year. and the idea of doing the trip right thing is it shows that men are kind of encroaching on women's space or like women's territory. yeah so i'm going to try and do it for a painting. i get my it's all kinds of different places they kind of fall into 2 broad categories really one is responding to things that happening in the news so being part of an existing conversation that's already happening. lived experience can often affect which stories from the news i perceive as being taking on so it's been to palestine has been so it's well and i felt like what i saw they didn't necessarily was and they certainly were selected in in the news coverage so i was reading and i feel like it's a topic that could potentially lend itself well to good day to journalism and so

that's something that i might take on that is again informed by my own personal experiences. i think i should have said injuries i think i should have done and. the other one is kind of starting a new conversation so i asked people to send me ideas that they have about things that really really matter to them so i'm often checking my d.m. my e-mail and just looking at the things that people care about and verify it comes from there and present experience as well as o.b.e. like a schoolteacher from one part america where the public school system is being defunded that i'm not aware of and those questions are my only surly come to me because they're not part of my lived experience but i think that they really important questions. to my mates no 5 years ago and i'm still just a mother that promised them women in that country in terms of my paperwork and it

was just a really really scary time. and i don't think it's in the scary times. there is a great sense of islam 5 here in america right now and one of the narratives about that is that muslims post security threats to the country distances 6 data suggests differently date suggest actually white terrorism is the biggest threat to america at the moment that gun those are huge start to american public safety and so i often think about the areas of misinformation that people have and some of them but attempts to directly address that.

i think it's often the most probable groups in society that are affected by fake news whether it's muslims in america are refugees are being portrayed as like benefit cheats and wanting to come here just to steal money get really really finds me but really frightens me.

the. thank you know me a good. song list the oldest oldest or the. it's just a lot. you wish way basically the power to live is that because i was this is when i 1st started working i was just illustrating them and photographing them and posting them as it is but my later work like this is about this was for thanksgiving it was about the number of babies that born relative to the number of hurricanes but like as an illustration it doesn't on the moon it doesn't really make sense as a chart and so i think that's one of the evolutions that people see of like charts that make sense and then charts they eventually don't you know i mean like i want to figure out the spacing of it a little bit yeah we should try and yes and starts half an hour. part of the purpose of handling illustrations is i want people to look at and question the illustration they see in front of them because the truth is that there is

a high degree of imprecision in in data right there is something to be said for that and understand that for every statistic least see the truth lies somewhere within the parameters around that number 2 is funny i think even this one right here which did really really well this is one of the like more successful ones i think this one i got the number slightly wrong so it's photo shopped in the final version so i like the bars a little bit so i don't know if that affects the value of it is actually just like brought those you're processing that you like double checking numbers over here. and honestly getting it wrong the time i feel like it's important to be transparent about that. yeah i think so. and this so much to do one of the best things about doing the dates journalism i do is that i will publish. or deaths from aids and i will show george bush

kind of presiding over this period and in all of the comments will be people that will be talking about all the factors that contributed to the visor aids beyond the government kind of turning a blind eye to it and so readers a concert make holding me accountable and saying these are the things that you're going right and these are things that you're getting wrong and the smaller your readership the fewer people are able to hold you to account i want to reach a really big group of people partly because i want to get it right and they don't know humus only get it right with more in an echo chamber and speaking to him in ground. i think pushed back a little bit of the idea that frankness is something new there's always been this information there's always been deliberate misinformation i think the word fake news implies intention and i think there are a lot of journalists who are trying to do a good job who are contributing to that look at the coverage of the u.s. election and the response was we didn't get it wrong the public misunderstood.

and i think the part the reason why there is so much misunderstanding about that is because journalists on sanctioning there's an 80 percent chance this person when they are saying gee there's an 84.9 percent chance and that is complete misinformation they are selling you a lie about the precision of their work we don't know the weather to that degree of accuracy we don't know election outcomes to that degree of accuracy so if the public didn't understand you filed and you didn't hold up your hands and say we got it wrong and there was just an unwillingness to do that that was really frightening to me when i was hired by the guardian we had a conversation are we going to cover the u.s. election by making a prediction and i thought very very very strongly that the role of data journalism is not to forecast people's behavior is to understand the now is to use the past and the present to be able to inform people so that they can make informed decisions themselves about how they want to vote it's not to tell them this is what you will do before you do it and said we spend the entire election right now column

skeptical polling where we would talk about why polling and its limitations and why it was so of me correct and i'm proud of the fact that we did that. i think people can often conflate polling with data journalism. it actually comes to be such an intense part of states journalism which which worries me it worries me even when it's not about forecasting people's behaviors because i think polling is fundamentally flawed i think using a 1000 people to represent a population of 320000000 people isn't a good idea it just fundamentally imprecise. i think even if you're not necessarily even an interest in the east like dates or affects every part of your life right you don't have access to good data how are you able to greater importance say this is why should be paid and so informing

people how they can go out and collect the numbers themselves that are relevant to their lives so they can be very own advocates is really really important and i think that that perspective is massively informed by my background in enjoying where other people were campaigning for what iraqi refugees and i.d.p.'s needed and actually those iraqi refugees and internally displaced people should have been in the room speak for themselves rather than speak whatever. you're selling international security the goal is to go in to enjoy what i call working for the united nations i worked means national organization migrations iraq office and i was looking at statistics about what people in the country needed but later when i went last time with you was it was not the place that i left the toll it was completely different not always safe there then but even then

this is that little bit better there's not much they wanted but we took one car journey where we going to the car from him way with saying then we went to have some kind of meeting or something and then by the time. of the same building and the building had been completely bombed oh you know when you've been bombed 10 minutes off of the with here all of the headlines about all of the migrants crossing by the water and then we told me that one of our. yes he nearly lost his life i think it was horrific where he went to pharaoh this is why ok. so i went to iraq and i think i took the photographs on my 1st ever visit to the country i'd never been before and it was my mom's 1st time of returning to the country since she left in her twenty's and so it was just very very bizarre to see this place that like was always. an imagined place was imagined

it was just kind of present in our household but not present in our household and yeah i guess taking photographs was a really important way of making it feel real because it was quite surreal so be there and then what i did which i did recently altered the photographs to show statistics about the country. so one of the issues with traditional dates journalism charts is that you don't see any humanity and you don't see any people it just feels so. cold and so one of them takes visualizations i did based on iraq was showing how life expectancy has changed over time and literally took a photograph of my mom standing in the garden of the house that she grew up in and digitally altered it so i adjusted to high as life expectancy in iraq has changed because i didn't want someone to see a bar that's bigger and then see a pilot smaller and think ok so iraqis live a few years less i want them to see a woman and know that a shorter life expectancy means

a few years of her living with her family and means. it means few years of her being able to support her family is a real person. and i still think that using photography into its journalism could be a really powerful way to do it i really really hate that process looking back at the photographs and i think they're really terrible but you know it's my 1st step in creating this kind of a thing. that is a great tigar i would be proud of that tiger today yeah i'm going to take a vote that's how all tiger should be drawn as an inspiration. 63 johnson mine. 60. 3 percent. return. 29. next

extinction. once you're ready to start if you can type in this you are out. sign this this is a really really simple spreadsheet in some ways and less important ways is about the titanic it's like from the passenger list of everyone on the titanic and very often when i'm like especially ones i create by large institutions the columns at the top seem to make no sense they're just like a weird series of letters and numbers and that's because somewhere else on the internet is a code book that you have to use to kind of decipher some of these things so it's really important if you try to find a code book that can help you to decipher what those numbers may necessarily just

give up. so i think a lot of people feel healthy skepticism when it comes to numbers that. they don't necessarily feel empowered to understand how to take apart that number they just think ok i have to trust it or not trust and that's my kind of middle path and i think that's a really really bad way to work so i not only want people to understand how i reach my conclusions i also want them to feel empowered to repeat those steps for other pieces of information so if i showing them how i can fact check a kind a politician has made a name when they hear another claim are able to repeat those steps and check out for themselves and i always think like one of the things that's so exciting about data is that you are able to be very transparent in ways that you might not be for other types of journalism so investigative journalism sometimes you just. obviously always always are going to sources of data. so now straightaway we're starting to see a story the probability of surviving is much higher in 1st class compared to that

class compared to. the now. just it's just a thing yeah yeah ok great state do a good thing it's good it's good to experiment you know i mean about the labels on things like it's like i mean accusing me and. you think you've come to a lot of. anyway but it's quite easy to like. i like that it's really cool i thought i'd just talk you through a few different like chant techniques this is so multiples i love small schools and i feel like it's something that you guys can think about so this was something about cases of measles and again look each each one of these babies is a year i could have just as easily had a pipe shop i saw i want to show a baby this is more fun a baby that's covered in sports but also allows you to kind of like my device is this idea of kind of firing the subjects with the thing. 'd it's interesting to me as well how one could play younger i think they have quite a good relationship with math because they are able to understand how they reached the final number right part of the way that people suddenly become disenchanted

with mass is that it doesn't make sense anymore you're not able to follow those steps and with good data journalism it's literally a case of saying this is the number of crimes that were committed this is the population and this is how i calculated the right and people can repeat those steps for themselves and see exactly how you reach a conclusion and that's really empowering it shows read is that you're on the same level playing field if i can do it you can do it too which is a really great message to have in journalism. the nightly news plays. in the.

eye and you're skeptical about most of the data sets i see because in every single case i'm not in that i'd say. arabs are not on any datasets by and large the connected in in america so i have always perceived myself or the other and i don't see myself in the states and even in this point i spend 4 months creating arabs are the other and i think that informs your whole outlook on the world when view are in that dataset and it makes me fundamentally skeptical any makes me fundamentally concerned about collecting more accurate and better information about the world around us. i just want to take action coming back to the senate race in america when asked thank you for watching trackers and that's just right i'm speaking of our nation's history that's on actually now that i know

i'm sorry i didn't really ever describe myself as a conscious and can really insisted on doing things only 1st illustrations i saw how big this works and what is this isn't even one of them i think it will come through using that word which is in support of this 96 which is who gets to kind of put themselves on to him and start and start say yes i drink because of the really miserable joke i hate it when i felt like i was really respected and i'm actually just started during the week just to kind of stay sane and nice and sanity and tracy. when you're struggling to find out what the truth is it's really helpful to have something like mine as well as just based in like spreadsheets and day just to tell you that she has cable and as their weight isn't that much power and i think she's when he said it communicate with prepaid she is that generally get left out today just.

to love the fact that mona just deals in something that's just the bookstore. yet look you know in a well where which is bizarrely devaluing the truth. and the fact that it's beginning to become the norm which is you know terrifying. and that trump but now it's with speaker and it feels that trump is winning. so for people to come along and just say look here's the facts here's the truth. this isn't spun it's just it is what it is it's just so important. dates are very often replicates the systems of power that already exist maybe they ignore them. sexual people maybe they ignore tiny religious and ethnic minorities and i think a big part of the future of state's journalism a big part of the future of fact checking is journalists going out and creating

their own data sets and that's incredibly difficult to do it's incredibly expensive right now but that again might be changing but i think it offers are some really exciting opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and to collect data in a way that better represents different communities. kenyan journalists and proceeded to press freedom and justice i have. on one side but that hope for one investigating government corruption and the national health care system a number of the transactions missing nigel became less. money that is unexplained to africa on some sites and publishable seems up people don't want to publish many of the dozen lucky jaska whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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