Making Great Data Visualisations for Journalism

In recent years, the world's best news outfits have invested in data journalism talent (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhkeller), tools (http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop#visualize-data-like-never-before) and projects (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline), in an effort to tell their stories better and with more context. In India though, such projects — and the trained professionals required to execute them — are few and far between. Hence, the theme of this Hacks/Hackers Delhi (http://www.facebook.com/groups/hackshackersdelhi/) meetup.

The first half will be five-min rapid presentations by people who are using data to tell stories, focusing on how they source their data, tools they use to clean/visualise it, and resources/training they think would help them do it better. We will have:

Cordelia Jenkins (http://in.linkedin.com/pub/cordelia-jenkins/1b/946/973) and Abel Robinson (http://in.linkedin.com/pub/abel-robinson/0/968/8a1) from Mint (http://www.livemint.com) demo their urban slums news app that won the €5,000 prize at Editors' Lab Delhi (http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/editors-lab/new-delhi/) Avinash Celestine (http://twitter.com/ac_soc) of The Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/) share the why and how behind his Data Stories blog (http://DataStories.in) Ravi Bajpai (http://in.linkedin.com/in/rbajpai) of the Centre for Science and Environment (http://www.cseindia.org/) discuss his data-driven analyses for Down to Earth (http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/india-tops-nations-vulnerable-disasters-displacement) magazine Neeta Verma (http://in.linkedin.com/pub/neeta-verma/3b/45b/39a) of the government's National Informatics Centre (http://www.nic.in/) introduce and demo Data Portal India (http://data.gov.in/), the public data sets available on the site and use cases so far Guneet Narula (http://in.linkedin.com/in/guneetnarula) of DataMeet (http://datameet.org/)'s Delhi chapter discuss how this group of policy wonks, statisticians, designers and developers is trying to work with open data The second half will be a public discussion on possible data journalism projects, public data that people want access to, workarounds to common challenges in this process, etc.

We are still lining up more presenters, so if you know anyone doing great work with public data, data visualisation, interactive maps/timelines for news, etc, do let us know and we'll invite them.

Do RSVP on this event's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/620642647953552/) too + invite others you think might be interested.