from data to argument
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Agenda [20] Intro & Collective Crit[10] A Process[15] Asking Questions[10] Finding Stories[15] Telling Your Story[15] Evaluating Stories
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Intro
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Group CritThe Global State of Agriculture
USAID, 2011
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Process
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ModelsThe Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism
Paul Bradshaw
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Asking questions
brainstorming, hypothesis forming, audience and goals
Gathering data
Scraping, collecting, cleaning
Finding a story
Cleaning and analyzing
Telling your story
Picking a technique
Trying it out
Assessment
My Model
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Question Asking & Getting Data
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WTFcsv - learning to asking questionshttps://databasic.io/wtfcsv
Come back with:
1 question to ask
list of other datasets you'd need
how you'd try to get those datasets
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Finding a Story
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Sketching a Storyhttps://databasic.io/wordcounter
Pick a sample or two
Find a quick story
Sketch how you'd tell that story
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Telling Your Story
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Choose the Right ChartAndrew Abela
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tools for making charts
does lots of things does one thing
easy to learn
hard to learn
raw
processing
ExcelTableau
gephiD3.js
Illustrator
infogr.am
Comic LifeSuper Lame
skrollr
Google Charts
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Evaluating Stories
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Abelson's MAGICMagnitude - size of the claim
Articulation - how precise is your claim
Generality - is it valid in multiple contexts
Interestingness - can this change beliefs in a way that matters?
Credibility - do you believe it?
Robert Abelson. 1995. Making Claims with Statistics. In Statistics as Principled Argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1–16. (PDF)
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Convincing PeopleLet's practice making arguments with data to convince people.