Technical Writing and Data Journalism - Angelica Lo Duca

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English - November 25, 2022 18:00 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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We talked about:

Angelica’s background
Angelica’s books
Data journalism
How Angelica got into data journalism
The field of digital humanities and Angelica’s data journalism course
Technical articles vs data journalism articles
Transforming reports into data storytelling
Are reports to stakeholders considered technical writing?
Data visualization in articles
Article length
The process of writing an article
Finding writing topics
How Angelica got into writing a book (communication with publishers)
The process for writing a book
Brainstorming
Reviews and revisions
Conclusion

Links:

Data Journalism examples (FENCED OUT): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/europe-refugee-crisis-border-control/??noredirect=on
Data Journalism examples (La tierra esclava): https://latierraesclava.eldiario.es/
Small medium publication aiming at being Stack Overflow of Medium: https://medium.com/syntaxerrorpub
Example of a self-published book on Data Visualization: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Data-Visualization-Storytelling-Scientist-ebook/dp/B07VYCR3Z6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=4JRJ48O7K8TK&keywords=joses+berengueres&qid=1668270728&sprefix=joses+beremguere%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-4
My novels (in Italian) La bambina e il Clown: https://www.amazon.it/Bambina-Clown-Angelica-Lo-Duca/dp/1500984515/ref=sr_1_9?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2KGK9GMN0FAHI&keywords=la+bambina+e+il+clown&qid=1668270769&sprefix=la+bambina+e+il+clown%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-9
My novels (in Italian) Il Violinista: https://www.amazon.it/Violinista-1-Angelica-Lo-Duca/dp/1501009672/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=12KTF9EF5UKIG&keywords=il+violinista+lo+duca&qid=1668270791&sprefix=il+violinista+lo+duca%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1
Course on Data Journalism: https://www.coursera.org/learn/visualization-for-data-journalism

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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