How to Make Data-Led Stories

Matt Daniels will cover the process, tools, and rubric used at The Pudding (https://pudding.cool/) to make visual essays. He'll also review the team's internal challenges when it comes to a story (and how they've tried to mitigate them). Bio: Matt Daniels is among the founding team of The Pudding, a site that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. He frequently writes about topics in pop culture, from film dialogue (https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/) to rapper vocabularies (https://pudding.cool/2017/02/vocabulary/) to music taste (https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-history/), as well as the process of making data-led stories, such as the the annual State of The Pudding and the Journalist Engineer. He started his career making well-designed Powerpoint slides. Agenda: - Pizza and socializing begins @ 6:45 - Talk begins @ 7:00 followed by Q&A - A little extra socializing after the event