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We live in a world with an abundance of data – from election results, budget reports, and census surveys, to Facebook updates and tweets from presidential candidates. Journalists and other communicators need to know how to find stories in data and shape them in compelling ways through maps, timelines, or graphics. Startup news organizations, legacy media and other brands are actively hiring data storytellers.
This intensive 2-day course will teach you how to find and analyze datasets, how to find stories buried within and to visualize them for powerful narratives.
You will cover the following topics and more:
Introduction to storytelling with data
 Useful data tools and data sources
 Data downloading, data cleaning and formatting
 Spreadsheets
 Data visualization theory
 Anatomy of a chart
 How to make a chart in Illustrator
 Maps, best practices
 Introduction to web languages
We will go from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm on Saturday and 11:30 am to 6 pm on Sunday.
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Class fee is $599. Are you eligible for a discount?
You will need a Google Drive account (free) and Adobe Illustrator (available for free at the school).
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CUNY J+ offers a Credly badge for completion of this workshop
Lam Thuy Vo is a multi-platform storyteller and interdisciplinary journalist. She is a Buzzfeed Open Lab Fellow. She was previously a graphics and data journalist at The Wall Street Journal's investigations team and the interactive editor for Al Jazeera America, where she headed a team of coder-journalists and covered poverty-related stories.
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She is also a journalism educator who taught for the interactive and social journalism departments at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism and SIPA at Columbia University. She has spoken and taught workshops around the world, including in Yangon, Myanmar, Paris, France, and Anchorage, Alaska.
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