2 Full Days of Intensive Training with Practical Roadmaps.
Be fully equipped to implement an actionable plan after this attending this insightful course.
The course is highly participatory, interactive and hands-on. Prepare to spend hours looking at rows of data points and get your hands dirty with real data sets.
Training outcomes
- Understand the importance and latest trends of data journalism.
- Be able to apply a data journalism workflow in newsroom operation.
- Acquire basic skills to find, scrap, clean and analyze data.
- Learn different ways to present data effectively including visualization and interactive application.
- Able to use different online tools to create data visualization including chart, map, timeline and relationship map.
Welcome and introduction
Data journalism 2.0.
Working with data
Communicating Data
Techniques & tools
Hands-on instructions on these tools.
Process and know how for integration into current systems and platforms and how to go about it.
- Overview of the 2 day workshop coverage.
- Explanation of objectives and expectations.
Data journalism 2.0.
- Introduction to data journalism 2.0. An overview.
- Why now? The importance of data in journalism.
- The different forms of data journalism.
- Impacts of storytelling with data.
- Global practices and trends in newsrooms.
Working with data
- Data journalism workflow.
- Where to find data?
- Data integrity.
- Data cleaning.
- How to interview the data?
Communicating Data
- Good charts, bad charts.
- Personalize and humanize data.
- Data sonification.
Techniques & tools
- Converting PDF to spreadsheet.
- Data scrapping with Import.io.
- Data cleaning with OpenRefine.
- Data analysis with spreadsheet.
- Creating chart with Highchart.
- Map making with Carto.
- Creating timeline with TimelineJS and StoryMapJS.
- Mapping relationship with Kumu.
Hands-on instructions on these tools.
Process and know how for integration into current systems and platforms and how to go about it.
Workshop Trainer
Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, Founder of DataN
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng is an award-winning digital journalist. He is also the founder of DataN, a training program that lowers the barrier for newsrooms and journalists with limited resources to integrate data journalism into daily reporting. DataN has helped publications like Foreign Policy, NK News and Malaysiakini to strengthen their storytelling with data, visual and interactive components.
Keng has more than 10 years of experience in digital journalism. He was a journalist with Malaysiakini for 8 years specializing in investigative and political reporting. He produced over 3,500 news reports during the period. In 2013, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to further his studies at New York University's Studio 20, a journalism M.A. program that focuses on new media and digital innovation. In 2015, Keng was selected as a Google Journalism Fellow and a Tow-Knight Fellow. He has worked in several US newsrooms including NBC, Foreign Policy, PRI.org and the International Business Times.
In addition, he has extensive experience in social media management, research, election monitoring and translation. Keng produces data and interactive data visualization and is involved in many projects. Keng’s skills and experience include – effectively using data journalism tools and processes, consulting on data-driven projects and data visualizations. He has also developed innovative solutions to address and solve problems faced by digital newsrooms. In addition, he is experienced in breaking news, live coverage of news, investigative reporting, citizen journalism and research. His passion is in combining his experience in reporting and storytelling with technology to produce sustainable and better journalism products. In this training, he will impart his knowledge and skills to participants from newsrooms with a step by step process and systematic road map. Be sure to join us in this workshop!
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng is an award-winning digital journalist. He is also the founder of DataN, a training program that lowers the barrier for newsrooms and journalists with limited resources to integrate data journalism into daily reporting. DataN has helped publications like Foreign Policy, NK News and Malaysiakini to strengthen their storytelling with data, visual and interactive components.
Keng has more than 10 years of experience in digital journalism. He was a journalist with Malaysiakini for 8 years specializing in investigative and political reporting. He produced over 3,500 news reports during the period. In 2013, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to further his studies at New York University's Studio 20, a journalism M.A. program that focuses on new media and digital innovation. In 2015, Keng was selected as a Google Journalism Fellow and a Tow-Knight Fellow. He has worked in several US newsrooms including NBC, Foreign Policy, PRI.org and the International Business Times.
In addition, he has extensive experience in social media management, research, election monitoring and translation. Keng produces data and interactive data visualization and is involved in many projects. Keng’s skills and experience include – effectively using data journalism tools and processes, consulting on data-driven projects and data visualizations. He has also developed innovative solutions to address and solve problems faced by digital newsrooms. In addition, he is experienced in breaking news, live coverage of news, investigative reporting, citizen journalism and research. His passion is in combining his experience in reporting and storytelling with technology to produce sustainable and better journalism products. In this training, he will impart his knowledge and skills to participants from newsrooms with a step by step process and systematic road map. Be sure to join us in this workshop!
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We are an international conference and events organiser headquartered in Singapore.
Visit us at www.asher-russell.com
@2016 Asher Russell Pte Ltd