Week 10
Tuesday * * * Oct. 28
Begin work on Project 3. How to write the Family Album Radio script (due next week). Data visualization lecture.
DUE
- Blog post #15 @ 10 a.m. Tuesday
- Blog post #16 @ 10 a.m. Friday / Today, in addition to your usual Friday blog post, you will send me, via e-mail, two precise URLs to comments you have posted on other blogs. See details.
READ Beckett, pp. 87–126.
Notes * * *
The research article your team will use as a basis for your radio script is also a starting point for your data story.
Examples * * *
- Independents by Religious Tradition (The New York Times)
- How Much Is $700 Billion? (USA Today)
- Gapminder: Income per Person, 1800-2005
- All of Inflation's Little Parts (The New York Times)
- D.C. Schools Scorecard (washingtonpost.com)
- How Bad Could Things Get? (The New York Times)
Today's Sites / Resources * * *
- Visualization Lab (The New York Times); see datasets
- Many Eyes (IBM); Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes (offers a good overviw of types of charts and graphs that are commonly used to represent data)
- 25+ bodacious and inspirational visualizations for data, interactivity and new storytelling forms, from Will Sullivan (Journerdism)
- FusionCharts Free (free Flash charts)
- Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story, by Nathan Yau