| [Day 1] |
| Data Literacy Bootcamp (DBootcamp) for Journalists and NGOs |
| Hands-On Training |
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SESSION TOPIC |
LEAD TRAINER/S |
| 08h30 – 09h00 |
WELCOME REFRESHMENTS |
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| 09h00 – 09h15 |
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION |
Sandra Moscoso, World Bank Group |
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Intro to the program & brief walk-though of intensive two days |
Matt Bailey, US Government and Code for DC |
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| 09h15 – 10h00 |
JOURNALISM, STORYTELLING, & DATA |
David Eads, NPR |
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The role of data and data journalism in the newsroom, with examples of storytelling through data from global and regional media organizations; the business value behind data journalism; sustainability of data driven products |
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FORMAT: Moderated, panel-style discussion, Q&As |
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| 10h00- 10h30 |
BUILDING COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT AROUND DATA |
Laurenellen McCann, Open Technology Institute & Smart Chicago Collaborative |
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Examples of civic apps and tools developed by the open source and open data community and process for engaging communities and the public around data |
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FORMAT: Online walk-through of examples, w/ Q&As |
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| 10h30 – 10h45 |
GETTING STARTED: WHAT IS OPEN DATA? |
Tariq Khokhar, World Bank Group |
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Brief demo & discussion of what open data is, how data is structured, collected and managed throughout it’s ‘life’ |
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FORMAT: Online walk-through of data sources, w/ Q&As |
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| 10h45 – 11h00 |
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DATA.DC.GOV |
Julie Kanzler, DC GIS, OCTO |
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Brief introduction to data.dc.gov data, the MAR and web services available to developers and journalists |
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FORMAT: Live demo, w/ Q&As |
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| 11h00 – 11h10 |
*BREAK* |
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| 11h10 – 11h30 |
WHERE ELSE CAN I FIND DATA? |
Martin Austermuhle, WAMU/ Open Gov Coalition |
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Demo & discussion of available sources of data – where to find it, and why it matters. |
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FORMAT: Live demo walk-through of data sources, w/ Q&As |
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| 11h30 – 12h30 |
HANDS-ON DEMO: CLEANING DATA AND BASIC ANALYSIS – Intro to Open Refine |
David Eads, NPR |
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Introduction to Data Cleaning tools which can make working with data easy – this will be a quick walk-through of Open Refine, with links provided. |
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FORMAT: Online walk-through of Google tools, w/ Q&As |
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| 12h30 – 13h30 |
*WORKING LUNCH – SITTING IN GROUPS: DEFINING PROJECTS FOR TOMORROW’S PITCHING SESSION |
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| 13h30 – 14h30 |
HANDS-ON DEMO: DATA ANALYSIS (using data.dc.gov datasets, +++) |
David Eads, NPR |
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Introduction to comparison and analysis of multiple data sources (city vs country, country vs global, etc) |
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FORMAT: Hands-On learning with available data sources, w/ Q&As |
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| 14h30 – 15h00 |
PRACTICAL HINTS FROM A DATA JOURNALIST: HOW TO WORK WITH DATA EFFECTIVELY |
Steven Rich, The Washington Post |
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Data expert reverse-engineers a data story (“how did I do this?”), & explains the practical reality of working with data for journalists, for civil society advocacy, and more. |
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FORMAT: PPT Slides & online navigation to sources of data for story/advocacy development |
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| 15h00 – 15h15 |
*GROUP BREAKOUT: WHAT MATTERS TO YOU?* |
Group |
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Self-selection into groups, to identify a topic or problem that the right data could help to solve. |
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| 15h15 – 15h30 |
*BREAK* |
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| 15h30 – 16h30 |
HANDS-ON EXCERCISE: INTRO TO MAPPING |
Rory Nealon, USAID |
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Hands on tutorial on visualizing data using mapping applications |
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(Note – participants now sitting in their thematic interest groups). |
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FORMAT: Hands-on learning, w/ Q&As |
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| 16h30 – 17h30 |
HANDS-ON PRACTICAL: DATA VISUALIZATION |
Christopher Given, Code for DC |
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Hands on tutorial on data visualization, using DC data |
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(Note – participants now sitting in their thematic interest groups) |
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FORMAT: Hands-On learning with available data sources, w/ Q&As |
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| 17h30 – 18h00 |
WRAP-UP AND PLANNING FOR DAY 2 |
Sandra Moscoso, World Bank |
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Identify projects and break out into groups |
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| [Day 2] |
| Data Literacy Bootcamp (DBootcamp) for Journalists and NGOs |
| Hack Day |
| TIME |
SESSION TOPIC |
SESSION LEADER/S |
| 08h30 -09h00 |
REGISTRATION |
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| 09h00 – 09h30 |
DEMO: DATA SCRAPING |
TBD |
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Basic, introduction to efficiently liberating data from pdfs or web pages |
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FORMAT: Demo with available data sources, w/ Q&As |
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| 09h45 – 18h00 |
*GROUP BREAKOUT: DELIVER PITCHES AND JOIN HACKATHON |
http://dc.opendataday.org/ |
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