Programa | Data Journalism

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Data Journalism

25 May 2021
Virtual
India

Programa | Data Journalism

Programa

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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