November 25, 2022

Technical Writing and Data Journalism - Angelica Lo Duca

50 minutes

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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