Data Visualization and Data Journalism

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
36
Area: 
Big Data Story Telling
Description: 

The module aims at preparing students to the approprieted presentation of data and knowledge extracted from them through visualization tools and narratives that exploit multimedia.
The module first presents the basic visualization techniques for the effective presentation of information from several different sources: structured data (relational, hierarchies, trees), relational data (social networks), temporal data, spatial data and spatio-temporal data.
Then, it also presents the most significant recent experiences in journalism and storytelling based on quantitative information extracted from various data sources.

Notions: 

Introduction to visualization of the information obtained from different sources: structured data (relational, hierarchical, trees), network data (social network), temporal data, spatial data and spatio-temporal data.
Introduction to data journalism, story telling and linked data

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