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How to Create Digital Maps
About This Webinar
This training will introduce participants to three free tools for digital map-making. Following a discussion on geographic data sourcing, organization, and visualization, this training will conclude with instructions on how participants can visualize a simple dataset using one of three tools. Participants will leave understanding the data and story underlying digital maps as well as an appreciation of how to design maps and how they can be used effectively.
Who should take this training:
- Storytellers interested in mapping geographic data
- Journalists looking to complement their stories with maps
- Developers learning to work with journalists and their data
Agenda
- Geographic data sourcing
- Data organization
- Visualization design
- Three tools to make digital maps
- Geographic data sourcing
- Data organization
- Visualization design
- Three tools to make digital maps
Categories:
ARTS & CULTURE
BUSINESS & FINANCE
EDUCATION & LEARNING
SCIENCE & TECH
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: $19.00
Webinar ID: c7c03b18d6ee
Featured Presenters
James Buck manages DigitalEd, a series of live online trainings offered by MediaShift, the premier destination for insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology.
Aleszu Bajak is a journalist covering science, energy, the environment, and health across the Americas. In 2013 he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at M.I.T. where he explored the interface between journalists, designers and developers. He now teaches journalism at Northeastern University's Media Innovation program and edits Storybench.org. Before freelance reporting from Latin America, he worked as a producer for the NPR talk show Science Friday. He writes for Esquire, The Washington Post, Nature, and Science, among other outlets.
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DigitalEd is a series of live online trainings offered by MediaShift, the premier destination for insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology.
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