Instructor: Kelly Kaufhold

Fri, May 17, 9am – noon

Description

You’re in for a busy day today! We’ll revisit some of what I talked about in the online module, with examples of good data storytelling and interactives, then you’ll have some exercises finding and interacting with data. This module will be oriented around giving you skills that you can then go teach to undergraduate students. I’ll walk you through searching for data, “interrogating” it to tell a story, sorting, cleaning and looking for relationships. We’ll end with you learning some visualization tools that let you build your own data interactives. All of this will use tools that will be available to you and your students in any lab you teach in. Then after lunch we head to Austin for an afternoon at the Texas Tribune – then we’ll end the day with some real Texas barbecue!

Outline

I. Concepts of Data Storytelling

II. Discrete versus Aggregate data

III. The State of Data Generation

IV. Finding Data – Where to Look, How to Search

V. “Interrogating” Data – Sorting, Cleaning, Looking for Relationships

VI. Visualizing Data – Helping Readers Tell Their Own Story

VII. Some Advanced Techniques and Practice

VIII. Lunch 1pm – 2pm

IX. Bus to the Texas Tribune

Resources

Here’s Kelly’s lecture from the in-person data journalism session, including links to the Google map, descriptions and more – and here’s a link to the PowerPoint on Slideshare. All of the datasets are available in the “resources for the in-person class” just below this.

Here are some resources for the in-person class

You’ll find many resources which make data available here

And you’ll find many examples of data reporting here.