Session 1, 11 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, 18 May 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, 25-May-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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