Training Program: "Learn how to create compelling data journalism visualizations"
The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA) in partnership with Microsoft presented an online demonstration on data visualization. Many stories lie within the data and a data journalist's job is to find ways to unearth these stories and invite readers to explore the information meaningful to them. Using Power BI, which acts as a data researcher and graphics desk in one, this session showed freelance journalists as well as newsrooms small and large how to approach data, discuss common missteps, and create embeddable, data-driven interactives for their news websites.
The demonstration will be presented by:
Cathleen Crowley: Cathleen is a data journalist and web producer at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., where she is a data team of one. Cathleen has covered every beat from cops, courts and city hall to education and health. Her path to data journalism started with Excel spreadsheets and Census data and grew to ranking hospitals by medical errors, creating databases, and designing interactives.
Vera Chan: Vera is sr. manager for worldwide journalists with Microsoft News Labs. She has worked the prototypical features/A&E/culture beat at a small daily newspaper and led global editorial projects and initiatives at the world's leading online destinations (Yahoo! and Microsoft). She works with journalists and newsrooms around the world on technology to help them scale.
Bill Monroe: Bill is a Microsoft Office Trainer, helping journalists learn to use a suite of editing tools and services more effectively. His career spans 20+ years helping users, customers, salespeople, and more use technology products and services to make their personal and work lives better. The New York native now lives in Seattle, Wash., where he drinks too much coffee and produces Strokecast, a podcast that explores the challenges and opportunities for people recovering from stroke.
(Note: Power BI Desktop is built for Windows computers whereas Power BI Online, a cloud-based is accessible from all devices.).