Readings
Readings
Due on the first day of class: Watch Geoff McGhee’s Knight Fellowship Report on Data Journalism at http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
- Chapter 2 Data Vis in Journalism
- Chapter 3 Telling “Data Stories”
- Chapter 6 Exploring Data
Readings are available on e-reserve from the Research Center. We will be reading from:
- Cairo, The Functional Art
- Illinsky and Steele, Designing Data Visualizations
- Tufte, Quantitative Display of Information
Readings on e-reserve: http://cunygsj.docutek.com/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=166&page=docs
Password: dataviz15
Suggested readings
- “Data Points” column at Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/data_points/
- Kevin Quealy’s blog, “Charts and Things”: http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com
- Source, the Knight-Mozilla blog on code and journalism http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/learning/
Other goodies
Tow Center for Digital Journalism: Report on the Art and Science of Data Journalism
Data: What is and isn’t it good for?, panel begins at 2:22:22. (about 1 hour 20 minutes total running time)