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PRESENTER: Jake Batsell, Southern Methodist University DESCRIPTION: Creating a Data Viz Competition. Part of Journalism Interactive 2013 conference Teach-A-Thon. Educators were given 5 minutes to talk about curriculum ideas, tools, class assignments and more to help digital journalism educators. Journalisminteractive.com
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Photo by Brian Legate (Flickr)#jiconf / 2.8.13Jake Batsell, SMU@jbatsell
Teaching Data Visualization
Through Coffee Prices
Introducing
students to “data journalism” can
beINTIMIDATING
Image by Brett Jordan(Flickr)
By adapting an exercise from Thornburg’s “Producing Online News” and adding a dose of caffeinated competition...
STUDENTS CAN MASTER THE BASICS
OF DATA VISUALIZATIO
N IN 48 HOURS.
STEP ONE:Put students in small
groups.The mission• Use a combination of reporting skills and data tools to create an interactive map that visualizes local coffee prices.*
Photo by codepo8 (Flickr)
* 16 oz. drip
STEP ONE (cont’d):Groups create reporting strategy.
• Settle on data elements.• Create Google spreadsheet.• Agree on reporting methods: Shoe-leather, phone calls, Web research, crowdsourcing, etc.
Photo by codepo8 (Flickr)
STEP TWO:Collecting the data.• Finalized spreadsheets
due by start of next class.
• Standardizing is key.• If crowdsourcing, must
vet contributions and decide whether to use
them as is, correct them, or exclude.
STEP THREE:Visualizing the data.• Groups reconvene
in class to turn spreadsheets into interactive maps with Google Fusion.
• Class time is for polishing and troubleshooting only;no additional reporting.
STEP FOUR:PRIZES!!
@jbatselljbatsell@smu.edu
More details, links & resources:
http://j.mp/teachdataviz
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