internews-ke/data-workshop

[curriculum] Materials from Internews-Kenya's Data Journalism Workshop (May 26-30, 2014) ##data-workshop [curriculum] Lessons and outlines from Internews Kenya's Data Journalism Workshop (May 26-30, 2014) ###Objectives By the end of workshop participants should be able to: 1. Appreciate data journalism 2. Mine, scrape and analyze data on health 3. Use simple tools to visualize data 4. Write a data-driven story proposal 5. Package data into simple, compelling and accessible stories. ###Schedule This schedule reflects the more specific agenda for the workshop in May, with more generic times so it can be re-used and applied to future workshops. Each Agenda Item links to a corresponding presentation and supporting materials, examples and notes can be found in each directory by day (day1, day2 ... day5). ####Day 1: Time | Agenda Item | Leaders -------- | ------------- | ------------ 1 hr | 1 - Introduction/Expectations/Survey | Dorothy/Lydia 2.5 hr | 2 - Journalism in the age of data | Dorothy 1.5 hr | **Break** | 1.5 hr | 3 - Finding stories in data | Eva 1 hr | **Break** | 1.5 hr | 4 - Interviewing Your Data | Dorothy 15 min | **Break** | 1.5 hr | 5 - Multimedia Storytelling | Dol ####Day 2: Time | Agenda Item | Leaders -------- | ------------- | ------------ 1 hr | 1 - Finding Data For Stories | Eva 1.5 hr | 2 - Finding Data on the Web | Eva 1.5 hr | **Break** | 1 hr | 3 - Cleaning Your Data | Aggrey 1 hr | **Break** | 2 hr | 4 - Converting Data into Friendly Formats | Eva/Agnes 1.25 hr | **Break** | 1 hr | 5 - Intro to the Data Dredger | Dorothy ####Day 3: Time | Agenda Item | Leaders -------- | ------------- | ------------ 1 hr | 1 - Math and Statistics for Journalists | Dorothy 15 min | **Break** | 1.5 hr | 2 - Finding Interrelationships in Data | Dorothy/Aggrey 1 hr | 3 - How Data Informs my Storytelling | Paul 1 hr | **Break** | 1.25 hr | 4 - Creating Compelling Visuals | Agnes 15 min | **Break** | 1.5 hr | 5 - Data Visualization for Journalism - *Visualization Assignment* | Agnes ####Day 4: Time | Agenda Item | Leaders ---- …