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22.02.19 On weapons and dialects: The initial hypothesis and the final story Marie-Jos Kolly | NZZ Visuals @mjkolly R at the NZZ: Data-driven stories R at the NZZ: Rapid response 1 22.02.19 R at the NZZ: Elections The outcome was

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On weapons and dialects: The initial hypothesis and the final story

Marie-José Kolly | NZZ Visuals @mjkolly

R at the NZZ: Data-driven stories R at the NZZ: Rapid response

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R at the NZZ: Elections The outcome was unexpected

Case 1: on weapon exports

  • No specific anticipation
  • Data made a clear point

Case 2: on dialects

  • Expected specific effects
  • No confirmation

The outcome was unexpected

Case 1: on weapon exports

  • No specific anticipation
  • Data made a clear point

Case 2: on dialects

  • Expected specific effects
  • No confirmation

The outcome was unexpected

Case 1: on weapon exports

  • No specific anticipation
  • Data made a clear point

Case 2: on dialects

  • Expected specific effects
  • No confirmation
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On weapon exports: Motivation

Debate over export regulation. But how much war material is already sold to warring countries? Hypothesis: No specific anticipation.

Data on weapon exports

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) SRF Data

Data on conflicts Data on conflicts

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Scripting: Rename countries via countrycode Scripting: «Reshape» data Scripting: Merge dataframes

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More scripting: visualization Visualisation R to design

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We write about methods. And publish code

  • n github.com/nzzdev/st-methods

The outcome was unexpected

Case 1: on weapon exports

  • No specific anticipation
  • Data made a clear point

Case 2: on dialects

  • Expected specific effects
  • No confirmation

On dialects

Stereotype: «Mischdialekte» Hypothesis: More mobility => more «mix» More linguistic variability in larger places?

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On dialects

Stereotype: «Mischdialekte» Hypothesis: More mobility => more «mix» More linguistic variability in larger places?

Data on dialect use: Crowdsourcing

Dialäkt Äpp (by. Leeman, A., Kolly, M.-J., Wanitsch, D., Hasler, F., Eisenblatt, C., Werlen, I.

Data on dialect use

Many, many lines of code that clean data, reduce phonetic categories etc.

Data on demographics etc.

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Statistics: measure linguistic variability via qualvar

Deviation from the mode = 0 Deviation from the mode = 1

Results

Find an alternative spin

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Pick extrema pars pro toto Visualize what differentiates them

Fribourg Baar

Grosseltern: Gräutschi Ein paar Grosseltern: Bütschgi Ein paar Grosseltern: Gröibtschi Ein paar Enkelkinder: Bütschgi Ein paar Enkelkinder: Gräutschi Grosseltern: Bütschgi Enkelkinder: Bütschgi

Work on design Do reporter work

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Explain linguistic change via protagonists This story is still data-driven!

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Thank you for your attention!

Questions?

Contributors to the article on weapons: Authors: Marie-José Kolly, Anna Wiederkehr, Michael Surber, Andreas Rüesch, Daniel Steinvorth, Andres Wysling, Patrick Zoll Participation: David Bauer, tools: Beni Buess, Manuel Roth, Philip Küng. Contributors to the article on dialects: Authors: Marie-José Kolly, Alexandra Kohler, Stefanie Hasler (Video), Anna Wiederkehr (Grafik), Annick Ramp (Fotografie). Participation: David Bauer (Konzept), Markus Stein (Video), Beni Buess und Philip Küng (interaktive Elemente). Help and feedback by many others.