Post on 08-Apr-2017
From Data to ArgumentRahul Bhargavarahulb@mit.edu • @rahulbot
Systemic Justice Project2017.02.22
Agenda [20] Intro & Collective Crit[10] A Process[15] Asking Questions[10] Finding Stories[15] Telling Your Story[15] Evaluating Stories
Intro
Group CritThe Global State of Agriculture
USAID, 2011
Process
ModelsThe Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism
Paul Bradshaw
Asking questions
brainstorming, hypothesis forming, audience and goals
Gathering data
Scraping, collecting, cleaning
Finding a story
Cleaning and analyzing
Telling your story
Picking a technique
Trying it out
Assessment
My Model
Question Asking & Getting Data
WTFcsv - learning to asking questionshttps://databasic.io/wtfcsv
Come back with:
1 question to ask
list of other datasets you'd need
how you'd try to get those datasets
Finding a Story
Sketching a Storyhttps://databasic.io/wordcounter
Pick a sample or two
Find a quick story
Sketch how you'd tell that story
Telling Your Story
Choose the Right ChartAndrew Abela
tools for making charts
does lots of things does one thing
easy to learn
hard to learn
raw
processing
ExcelTableau
gephiD3.js
Illustrator
infogr.am
Comic LifeSuper Lame
skrollr
Google Charts
Evaluating Stories
Abelson's MAGICMagnitude - size of the claim
Articulation - how precise is your claim
Generality - is it valid in multiple contexts
Interestingness - can this change beliefs in a way that matters?
Credibility - do you believe it?
Robert Abelson. 1995. Making Claims with Statistics. In Statistics as Principled Argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1–16. (PDF)
Convincing PeopleLet's practice making arguments with data to convince people.
From Data to ArgumentRahul Bhargavarahulb@mit.edu • @rahulbot
Systemic Justice Project2017.02.22