Periodismo de datos. Caracterización de comunidades de práctica

This article explores an emerging practice for telling stories based on data and visualizations called data journalism. This practice is increasingly common and important to do investigative work around various issues that concern society; Data journalism through more transparent, open and inclusive actions, based on facts and data, allows people to generate stories that contribute to the community in general. The reader will find, then, an approach to the concepts of data journalism and communities of practice, as well as the result of some previous approaches. At the same time, a panoramic description of the methodology used in the research will be made, taking as reference the case study, this allows to characterize the practices in local communities of Colombia in order to determine factors that encourage transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity; the objective was achieved through exploratory and descriptive actions by the author, which allowed establishing an analysis and characterization of the variables that emerged from the study. The intervention and the analysis of results give account of the experiences that allowed to identify the practices associated to the journalism of data in different events and groups dedicated to it. All of them were approached from the participant observation, as well as the application and interpretation of instruments for the case study. Finally, reference is made to the conclusions reached in which the limitations of the study and its future possibilities were established, which will allow the understanding of emerging phenomena such as data journalism, which are pertinent to the present and work of the designer, and which enable other scenarios for design, the individual and society.