Dhrumil Mehta
Database Journalist, Politics @ FiveThirtyEight
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Welcome! Let's get rolling!
Hello, my name is...
Associate Prof. of Journalism @ Columbia U.
Deputy Director of Tow Center
Visiting Associate Prof of Public Policy @ Harvard Kennedy School
dhrumil.mehta@columbia.edu
@datadhrumil
@dmil
and my name is...
Data Reporter/ Developer @ The Philadelphia Inquirer
aseem.a.shukla@gmail.com
aas2345@columbia.edu
@ashukla89
ashukla89
- Install Party
- Meet Dhrumil & Aseem
- Meet each other! (Introductions & Survey Responses)
- Syllabus Overview
- Data Journalism: Possibilities And Limitations
- Project Brainstorming
- Homework Overview
Currently
Associate Prof. @ Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Deputy Director @ Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Visiting Associate Prof. @ Harvard Kennedy School
Previously
Database Journalist, Politics @ FiveThirtyEight
Database Journalist, Politics
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Internal Workflows
Reports Election Results
Lets readers see results that FiveThirtyEight deems unexpected
Expectations are calibrated before results ever start coming in.
https://www.datajournalismawards.org/project-listing/?project_id=2082
Computationally analyzing text to better understand media and political environments.
I have a research interest in text analysis
Take a second to write down a bit about who you are!
But there's a catch!
You have 5 minutes to create a 5-questions to get to know one other person in the room who you will have to introduce to the class
You will be split into:
1) Survey Makers
2) Interview Takers
Survey Makers (5 question survey)
Multiple Choice
Which of the following reporting topics interests you most? (1) Healthcare (2) Education (3) Agriculture
Scale
On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being most sure. How sure are you about what your thesis project will be about?
Yes/No
Are you an interested in New York City issues?
1-phrase Answer
Where did you grow up?
Interivew Takers
5 open-ended interview questions
Step 1: Send your questions to your partner via Slack:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-OCX3YKnWzpdrHRdRMnpsKP4TCNvLP9PcloU8DqQlZM/edit?usp=sharing
Step 2: Answer the questions that were sent to you via Slack
Live Coding
(unless I get nervous or we are short on time)
https://github.com/dmil/reporting-ii/blob/main/pre-class-survey/survey-responses.ipynb
Pay special attention to:
- [ ] The questions I ask of the dataset
- [ ] What I do when I don't know some code or forget how to do something
- [ ] What statistical or visual treatments I chose to apply and why
https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/140912/assignments/syllabus
Find a partner
Chat about your ideas
Toss them in our brainstorm doc
By Dhrumil Mehta
Saying hello to students