Seven Angles for Data Stories

How to analyse raw information to find compelling stories.

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Paul Bradshaw discusses the seven possible angles for tackling data stories, which are as follows: scale, change, ranking, variation, explore, relationships, and bad/open. By going through individual articles, Bradshaw explains which angle was applied to each story in a way that tried to emphasize the most important message being told by a particular data set. After going through several examples, Bradshaw leads an activity for participants who have the chance to show what they’ve learned by tackling a data set and trying to tell a story with it.

AUTHORS

Paul Bradshaw works as a consulting data journalist with the BBC England Data Unit, and also runs the MA in Data Journalism and the MA Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism at Birmingham City University. A journalist, writer and trainer, he has worked with news organisations including The Guardian, Telegraph, Mirror, Der Tagesspiegel and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and his awards include the CNN MultiChoice Award for an investigation into people trafficking in football.

Languages: English

PRODUCED AS PART OF
DATAFEST TBILISI 2020

SUPPORTED BY IWPR