Announcements

• Reminder - we're winding down, everything must be DONE...at the very latest by end of the month
  • Emojis must have responses or rewrites (⛔️, ❓, 🤯)
  • Assignment 2 & 3 should be complete to satisfaction...I will ask to re-submit if incomplete
     
• Project Deliverables 
  • Dataset Forms ✏️
  • Interview Forms ✏️
  • [Part 2]
    • Outline (Monday 9/18)
    • Process Presentation (Thursday 9/21)

Part 2: Outline

https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/140912/assignments/732869​

Deliverables:

• 10/18 Outline
• 10/21 Process Presentation

Project Timeline

• Upcoming Project Deliverables [Part 2]
  • 10/18 Outline
  • 10/21 Process Presentation

DRAFT DUE

Outline Due

Process
Presentation

EDITS DUE

Project Parameters

• An "act of journalism" that leans heavily on data analysis, but is also supported by reporting and may or may not contain multimedia elements like photos.
   
• Must contain at least one data visualization. May contain more than one visualization.
   
• All data analysis must be reproducible. I will ask for the original data and instructions to reproduce your analysis.
   
• If your project takes the form of a traditional story, let me know if you plan to exceed 1500 words.

Homework Discussion

1. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
   

2. The Quartz guide to bad data
   

3. Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
   https://ft.com/vocabulary

Today's News

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/parson-issues-legal-threat-against-post-dispatch-after-database-flaws-exposed/article_93f4d7d6-f792-5b1b-b556-00b5cac23af3.html

Data Visualization

Julia Wolfe

Senior Editor, Data Visualization at FiveThirtyEight

Some additional simple charts for disucssion

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fight-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-is-coming-to-kids-next/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/america-had-warmed-to-trumps-north-korea-strategy-before-the-vietnam-summit/​

Line

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/separating-families-at-the-border-is-really-unpopular/

Table

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/marijuana-legalization-is-super-popular-why-hasnt-it-happened-nationally/

Annotations

(step chart)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-five-types-of-nicolas-cage-movies/

Annotations

(step chart)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-dollar-and-cents-case-against-hollywoods-exclusion-of-women/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fight-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-is-coming-to-kids-next/

Scatter

Assignment 4

making visual choices


https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/140912/assignments/733025

Assignment 4

making visual choices


https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/140912/assignments/733025

pairs: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AOibwUT822SA2SVScMrriEsq8nWii-z9cuOnpInoPeI/edit?usp=sharing

Project Time!

Homework

Project Part 2: Outline

https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/140912/assignments/732869​

Deliverables:

• 10/18 Outline
• 10/21 Process Presentation