1. CHALLENGE
Newsrooms need data to present background information, events and trends – in clear visualisations. Well-informed reporting is often impossible without a reliable data foundation.
Obtaining this data is laborious: Datasets are rarely freely available, often scattered, or difficult to access. It takes time and resources to find the right data, verify it and store it in a usable format within one’s own system.
2. INNOVATION
dpa’s customers receive verified election results in real time, up-to-date data on parliaments in Germany and worldwide, key data on members of parliament and candidates and much more – all via a standardised interface built to the latest technological standards.
This frees up resources for editorial teams’ other important and creative work: telling their own stories, developing their own visualisations.
Konstantin Bessonov
Product owner elections,
dpa-infocom
3. BENEFIT
“Elections are among the most exciting events for data journalists. In a short amount of time, data from many constituencies must be collected, cleaned, visualised and analysed: With ElectionsLive, we can be sure that these figures always reach us quickly and reliably – and thus these tasks are taken off our hands.”
Julius Tröger
Head of data and visualisation,
DIE ZEIT