Technical Writing and Data Journalism - Angelica Lo Duca

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

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