Data is empowering news rooms, data is also setting a new world order for everyone from designers, to developers, to brands, to advertisers and publishers. But data in itself makes no sense, gaining insights and converting data in its many forms into an engaging story isn’t always as easy as it may seem.
Liz Lukas, CEO North America of Decoded - the global company giving professionals a high-level understanding of data, code and more - and Ben Casselman, Chief economics writer for Fivethirtyeight explore how harnessing data and data scientists turn out groundbreaking news stories.
Here is what happened in the hour long discussion - “The Art and Science of Data-Driven Storytelling” at the second day of SXSW Interactive in Content and Distribution segment.
Insights from Elizabeth Lukas, CEO North America, Decoded
Interrogating data meets journalistic storytelling. Data makes stories more powerful @DecodedCo #sxswi #artofdata
— Lizi Hamer (@LiziHamer) March 14, 2022
Journalism hasn’t changed. Data is just a tool. #Datajournalists #artofdata @DecodedCo
— Lizi Hamer (@LiziHamer) March 14, 2022
Journalism hasn’t changed. Data is just a tool. #Datajournalists #artofdata @DecodedCo
— Lizi Hamer (@LiziHamer) March 14, 2022
Insights from Ben Casselman, Chief economics writer for Fivethirtyeight
“People learn thru stories” @bencasselman #SXSW #artofdata
— IREC (@IRECUSA) March 14, 2022
You can teach journalists data skills more easily than you can teach Python programmers how to find a story. #ArtOfData #SXSW2015
— Trina Garnett (@yellowsunday) March 14, 2022
You have a dump of data. How do you make a story? 1. Look for patterns 2. Start with a question then find the data @bencasselman #artofdata
— Lizi Hamer (@LiziHamer) March 14, 2022
[email protected] : When crafting data-driven stories, a lot of time spent on “unsexy” stuff like cleaning up spreadsheets, #artofdata #SXSWi
— Kelsey Volkmann (@KelseyVolkmann) March 14, 2022
It’s used to be that you went into Journalism because you didn’t like Math. - @bencasselman #SXSW #artofdata
— brooke summers (@brookeissocial) March 14, 2022
The packed session was well liked by the audience
Standing room only at #artofdata @sxsw. pic.twitter.com/VpPosBdFCB
— Kim Brown (@1KimBrown) March 14, 2022
Standing room crowd for “The Art and Science of Data Driven Storytelling” #artofdata #SXSW #SXSWi pic.twitter.com/IfkUsbtSG0
— Chris Howell (@HowDigi) March 14, 2022
Room entirely full. #artofdata #SXSW #engagingalways pic.twitter.com/pCeGX50nmf
— Julian Lambertin (@framingyou) March 14, 2022
The best talks have the smallest rooms! The Art and Science of Data-Driven Storytelling #SXSW #artofdata #T1SXSW pic.twitter.com/KKGdhsSCnP
— Eddy (@Eddywi) March 14, 2022
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