Data Visualization for Storytelling and Discovery

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This resource page features course content from the Knight Center for Journalism in the America's massive open online course (MOOC), titled "Data Visualization for Storytelling and Discovery." The four-week course, which was powered by Google, took place from June 11 to July 8, 2018. We are now making the content free and available to students who took the course and anyone else who is interested in learning how to create data visualizations to improve their reporting and storytelling.

The course was taught by Alberto Cairo, He created and curated the content for the course, which includes video classes and tutorials, readings, exercises, and more.

The course materials are broken up into four modules:

Module 1: Offers an introduction to visualization: what it is, how it works, and what ethical considerations are involved in its design. It also reviews how to prepare data before visualizing it.
Module 2: Covers how visualization can be used to explore and discover features that often hide behind data. The video tutorials will show you how to use software tools to import a data set and then visualize it in multiple ways to reveal patterns and exceptions to those patterns.
Module 3: Explains how visualization can be used to communicate with the public. The video tutorials show how to use the Google tool Flourish to design static and interactive maps and charts, and then put them together in sequential narratives.
Module 4: Provides you with an exercise that will motivate you to apply what you learned from the course materials. Specifically, you’ll be asked to design a visualization based on a topic and datasets of your choice.

As you review this resource page, we encourage you to watch the videos, read the readings, and complete the exercises as time allows. The course materials build off each other, but the videos and readings also act as standalone resources that you can return to over time.

We hope you enjoy the materials and share them with others who are interested in learning more about how to use data visualizations to improve reporting and storytelling. We also encourage you to visit the Google News Initiative’s training site for journalists -- training center. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at journalismcourses@austin.utexas.edu.

About the Instructor

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He’s also the director of the visualization program at UM’s Center for Computational Science. Cairo has been a director of infographics and multimedia at news publications in Spain (El Mundo, 2000-2005) and Brazil (Editora Globo, 2010-2012,) and a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Besides teaching at UM, he works as a freelancer and permanent consultant for companies like Google. He’s the author of the books The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization (2012) and The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication.

Introduction to Visualization Principles

Goals

This module offers an introduction to visualization, what it is, how it works, and what ethical considerations are involved in its design. It also teaches how to prepare data before visualizing it, which will be covered in module 2.

Module 1 will cover