Dhrumil Mehta
Database Journalist, Politics @ FiveThirtyEight
(1) Make sure you're on Slack:
https://ledeprogram.slack.com/
(2) If your team has slides, you can either screenshare on zoom when the time comes, or drop a google link in Slack that is visible to LionMail 🦁 and use the podium computer to navigate them. Podium computer is logged into my Columbia Google account.
If you have any questions, just raise your hand 🖐!
Welcome! Let's get rolling!
Project Showcase + Quant Editing
Pitch
Report
Produce
Learning Objectives:
- Lecture: Quantitative Editing
Laura Bronner
- Announcements
- Process Presentations / Feedback
- End-of-class Survey
Laura Bronner
@laurabronner
Senior Applied Scientist @ETH Zürich
Formerly, Quantitative Editor @FiveThirtyEight
Laura's guide to quant edits:
http://www.laurabronner.com/quant-editing
(i.e. questions I may ask you to answer if they're not clear from your data diary)
What is a data diary?
Original data as it was collected
Documentation (codebook, etc.)
Instructions to reproduce the analysis
If you manually worked in excel/google sheets, and it's not obvious by looking at the sheet how you got from the original data to what you have in the article, you'll need to write a short explanation to help me re-implement your analysis
code is a set of instructions. If you worked in code, just make sure to add comments to help me navigate it.
Can I reproduce your work with these instructions?
DRAFT DUE
EDITS DUE
Note: I would prefer you submit these separately if you can. Particularly if you're not sure of your ability to do this in DataWrapper on your own. Feel free to come to office hours if you need.
If you do submit one per team, please make sure you've actually worked together and both teammates understand (1) what needed improvement and (2) are able to make a chart like this in DataWrapper.
Know your data | Know your point | Know your audience
Know your data | Know your point | Know your audience
Tentative headline/subheadline
Background info
Data analysis “behind the scenes”
Draft visuals
How reporting and interviewing guide your inquiry
Work that remains to be done
...for Algorithms
Until then... find me on https://calendly.com/dmil/ OR Slack
By Dhrumil Mehta