Session 1, 25 May 2021

Time: 11.30-1.00 pm IST

Data Journalism 101

• What is data journalism? Concept and brief historical context.
• What kind of stories can data enable us to do? 
• Introduction to the three components of the process -
  1. Getting data
  2. Analysing data
  3. Communicating data
• How to get started? Tools and strategies to start incorporating data in stories.
• Resources
• Q/A

Session 2, 1 June 2021

Time: 11.30 am - 1.00 pm IST

Getting data + analysing data

• What comes first, data set or the story?
• How do you get data
  1. Download
  2. Scrape
  3. Request
  4. RTI
  5. Create your own
• The data cleaning process
• Interviewing datasets
• Is data objective?
• Some common techniques to find stories in data sets
  
  1. Outliers
  2. Trends
  3. Sampling
  4. The weird or quirky
   

Sessio 3, 8-June-2021

Time: 11.30 am - 1.00 pm IST

Communicating with data

• Communicating data in different forms - words, charts, maps, photos, illustrations
• Types of visual encodings in charts
• Quiz - Participants use the chat to recognise different kinds of encodings
• Importance of comparison and context
• Importance of annotations
• Best practices for charts
• Exercise - How to improve visualisations. Show some viz and participants use the chat to tell ways to improve them.

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