Creating data visualizations

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    • Maggie Farley, a former Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent, is now working with Google News Initiative to help journalism thrive in the digital age. In this quick clip, Farley discusses how to build visualizations that will engage and build trust with your audience. She demonstrates different tools to build quick data visualizations and animations.

    The following is a link to further resources on data visualization.

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    Writing with numbers isn’t easy. The best data-driven stories don’t read like data stories. They focus on the humans, those impacted by the data and the issues.

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    • PowerPoint 05 – Promote Your Story

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    • PowerPoint 04 -Tell Your Story

    Learn from Microsoft master trainer Bill Monroe how an effective PowerPoint helps tell your story. This is the fourth session in a five-part series on PowerPoint.

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    • PowerPoint 03 – Adding Video, Audio and More

    Improve your deck with video, audio, data and animations with instruction from Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe. This is the third in our series on learning PowerPoint.

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