{"id":10295,"date":"2017-05-30T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2021-04-18T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:18:05","slug":"coms-data-storytelling-workshop-is-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/coms-data-storytelling-workshop-is-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"COM&#8217;s Data Storytelling Workshop is For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10296\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by ermingut\/iStock\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/05\/h_butoday_995x664_iStock-174616627.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by ermingut\/iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Data points are everywhere. Swipe a credit card, buy something online, or upload a pet video to Facebook, you leave a data point. Just about everything that a corporation or government does leaves a digital footprint as well. These days, a lot of people want to use that data to find an answer or make a point, but it\u2019s not always easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn incomprehensible amount of digitized data has been collected and stored globally,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/maggie-mulvihill\/\">Maggie Mulvihill<\/a>, a College of Communication associate professor of the practice in computational journalism. \u201cEverybody is trying to harness the meaning of that data and grappling with how to present it effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the focus of COM\u2019s fourth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/data-storytelling\/\">Storytelling with Data Workshops<\/a>, being held June 5 to 9 and 12 to 16. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/data-storytelling\/registration.html\">Registration<\/a> is open now, offering student, nonprofit, and professional rates. (Keep up on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BUStoryWithData\">@BUStorywithData<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very intensive training in skill sets really needed by every occupation,\u201d says workshop founder and executive director Mulvihill, who is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<\/a> faculty fellow and cofounder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/necir.org\/\">New England Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The workshops include lessons in data collection\u2014how to scrape data from a website or extract it from social media, how to clean \u201cdirty\u201d data of errors and formatting problems, and how to find high-quality data in places you might not think to look. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a coder,\u201d Mulvihill says. \u201cThere are so many tools that journalists use that are point-and-click open-source tools. You can scrape a website in a couple of clicks, for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/data-storytelling\/registration.html\">Register for the workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/data-storytelling-is-for-everyone\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read more on BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data points are everywhere. 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