Data Journalism Conversations

Our latest Conversations with Data podcast features Professor Deborah Stone of Brandeis University. She speaks to us about her latest book "Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters". She also talks to us about how policymaking is shaped by the worship of numbers and why we should be sceptical of "quantitative imperialism".

Our latest Conversations with Data podcast features Lisa Charlotte Rost. As a data visualisation designer and blogger for Datawrapper, she talks to us about the DataVis Book Club she organises and how data visualisation has grown since COVID-19.

Our latest Conversations with Data podcast features economist and data visualisation expert Jonathan Schwabish. As founder of PolicyViz, he speaks to us about his latest book "Better Data Visualizations: A guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks".

Our latest Conversations with Data podcast features investigative data journalist Matthew Kauffman from the Solutions Journalism Network. He talks to us about how data journalists can apply a solutions-oriented mindset to their reporting to show a path forward to society's most pressing problems. Matthew also explains how data and solutions reporting are the perfect partners for doing better journalism.

Our latest Conversations with Data podcast features investigative journalist Pavla Holcová from OCCRP and Investigace.cz. She talks to us about using data to investigate the February 2018 murder of her colleague Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee.

In this week's Conversation with Data podcast, we caught up with Denise Malan, interim executive director at IRE. She talks to us about this year's upcoming NICAR conference happening 3-5 March 2021. She also provides useful advice on building your data journalism skills in the newsroom.

In this week's episode of Conversations with Data, we caught up with vaccinologist Dr Melvin Sanicas to discuss the new COVID-19 variants and how they will impact the vaccine rollout programmes around the world.

In this week's episode of Conversations with Data, we caught up with Sam Dubberley from Amnesty International. As head of the Crisis Evidence Lab and Manager of the Digital Verification Corps, he talks to us about running open source investigations to uncover human rights abuses. He also provides some useful training resources for journalists and activists new to the field.

Navigating Wikipedia is no easy task for journalists. We are often told to steer clear of it. But the free encyclopedia is full of data sources for your next story. Listen to researcher Monika S. Jones read her DataJournalism.com piece originally published in December 2020.

In this week's episode of Conversations with Data, we caught up with Professor Heidi Larson, an anthropologist who is director and founder of The Vaccine Confidence Project. She talks with us about vaccine hesitancy along with her new book, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start and Why They Don't Go Away".