Data Journalism Workshop, May 26 – 30
Objectives: By the end of workshop participants should be able to:
- Appreciate data journalism
- Mine, scrape and analyze data on health
- Use simple tools to visualize data
- Write a data driven story proposal
- Package data into simple, compelling and accessible stories.
Day One: Monday 26
08:30 – 09:30 Introduction/Expectations/Survey – Dorothy/Lydia
09:30 – 11:00 Journalism in the age of data – Dorothy
11:00 – 11:30 Tea break
11:30 – 01:00 Finding stories in data – Eva
01:00 – 02:00 Lunch
02:00 – 03:30 Interviewing your data – Dorothy
03:30 – 03:45 Tea break
03:45 – 05:15 Multimedia storytelling – Dol
Day Two Tuesday 27
09:00 – 10:00 Finding data for stories – Eva
10:00 – 11:30 Finding data on the web – Eva
11:30 – 12:00 Tea break
12:00 – 01:00 Cleaning your data – Aggrey
01:30 – 02:30 Lunch
02:00 – 04:00 Converting data into friendly formats – Eva/ Agnes
04:00 – 04:15 Tea break
04:15 – 05:15 Introduction to the Data Dredger – Dorothy
Day Three Wednesday 28
09:00 – 10:30 Math and statistics for journalists – Dorothy
10:30 – 10:45 Tea break
10:45 – 12:15 Finding interrelationships in data – Dorothy /Aggrey
12:15 – 01:15 How data informs my storytelling – Paul Wafula, The Standard
01:15 – 02:15 Lunch
02:15 – 03:45 Creating compelling visuals – Agnes
03:45 – 04:00 Tea break
04:00 – 05:30 Data visualization for journalism – Agnes
(Visualisation assignment)
Day Four: Thursday 29
09:00 – 10:00 Review assignment – Agnes/Eva
10:00 – 11:30 Creating maps with maps engine – Eva
11:30 – 12:00 Tea break
12: 00 – 01:30 Long–form, multimedia storytelling (part one) – Dorothy /Eva
(Exercise& discussion)
01:30 – 02:30 Lunch
02:30 – 04:00 Interpreting quantitative research results: distinguishing good
research from bad –Suleiman Asman, Innovation for Poverty Actions
04:00 – 04:15 Tea break
04:15 – 05:00 Long–form, multimedia storytelling (part two) – Eva/ Dorothy
Day Five: Friday 30
09:00 – 10:30 Recap – All trainers
10:30 – 11:00 Tea break
11:00 – 01:30 Story Mapping – All trainers
01:30 – 02:30 Lunch
02:30 – 05:00 Data Expedition – Eva/Dorothy/Agnes
05:00 – 5:15 Evaluation
