Data Stories: Theory and Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age

Catalog description

Data Stories introduces students to an increasingly important genre of discourse in todays society: data-driven narrative--e.g., as it appears in journalism; science, medical, and political reporting; business or government writing; and even some literary and artistic forms. The course brings humanities approaches such as narrative theory, genre theory, and media theory into conjunction with readings about data journalism and data visualization to ask this central question: how do you make a good story out of data? Among other assignments, students create a project in which they take a dataset and make a narrative about it.