Webinar 59: Data Workflow From A-Z

A data visualization training with Jacopo Ottaviani, Code For Africa’s Chief Data Officer. Moderation by ICFJ Vice President of Content and Community Patrick Butler.

The webinar will showcase techniques for data visualization applied to journalism. The online session will cover the entire ‘data workflow:’ from data research to cleaning, visualization, storytelling and interpretation. Visualizations will include interactive charts and maps, made with tools like Datawrapper. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions of the trainer, Jacopo Ottaviani, Code For Africa’s Chief Data Officer.

Jacopo Ottaviani (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an award-winning computer scientist and data expert who works as Code for Africa’s Chief Data Officer (CDO). As an ICFJ Knight Fellow in 2016-2019, Jacopo shaped Code for Africa’s data team and designed data journalism programs supported by the World Bank, Google News Initiative, GIZ and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, spearheading work in countries like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Senegal.

Jacopo's most recent work combines satellite data with drone imagery and forensic data to produce strategic data aggregations and visualizations that tackle burning social issues. This includes urban inequality (for the Slumscapes project with Thomson Reuters), immigration (for the Search & Rescue data portal for MSF), land rights (for HOTOSM, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, and InfoNile, an open data initiative on water security in the Nile Basin), and other Sustainable Development Goals (with UNDP and the Arab Development Portal).

His unique mix of technical skills, as a computer scientist and data journalist, has resulted in a series of projects published by, among others, Thomson Reuters Foundation (UK), Der Spiegel (Germany), El País (Spain), Al Jazeera International (global), De Correspondent (Netherlands) and Internazionale (Italy).