Month: March 2016

I really liked a quote from the third page of the section by Scott Klein at ProPublica: “It can help a reader understand their personal connection to a broad international phenomenon, and help them attach what they know to what

By Melanie Morales The chapter was insightful and though it didn’t scream super-surprising things at me, it stated what we need to know as novice data journalists and puts it into perspective the unique elements that data storytelling should have.

The Delivering Data chapter of the Data Journalism Handbook offered really excellent insight into best practices for working with and delivering data products as a journalist. I appreciated finding out that even for seasoned data journalists, workflow with data begins

The major thing I took away from the chapter was when it talked about using data visualization to tell stories and gave examples of when it is appropriate to use data visualization. One of the first things listed was to

– Connor Elkins I enjoy the idea of having a news style system to my future projects. Now with news being so readily available on the web, you can add motion to the data that is put into the news.

After reading the chapter, I realize that the actual data is what makes a story..worthy. We’ve seen it all – pie graphs, bar graphs, timeline graphs, line graphs, etc, etc. Sure, the presentation of the actual data might not be

The Delivering Data Chapter was very insightful on ways to present data. I have always said that beautiful visualizations are much more meaningful than words on a page. Even my example in a previous blog post for this class proved

Reading through this week’s assigned chapter in the Data Journalism Handbook was an interesting, at times overwhelming experience. I found myself wondering, primarily, where all the journalists that are talked about throughout the reading find the interesting data that they

Read Data Journalism Handbook – Delivering Data; write a blog post covering your impression of the main points of this chapter. How do you plan to deliver data in your final project? Discuss your data and how you would like

This past semester has been by far, the busiest I’ve ever had. There is days that I wake up to 10 messages and 3 missed calls all from different people requesting some type of work needed to be done. There