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/bord…
• 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-Visualiza…
• My novels (in Italian) La bambina e il Clown: https://www.amazon.it/Bambina-Clown-Angelica-Lo-Du…
• My novels (in Italian) Il Violinista: https://www.amazon.it/Violinista-1-Angelica-Lo-Duc…
• Course on Data Journalism: https://www.coursera.org/learn/visualization-for-d…

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