Basic Mapping for Journalists

claudia_nunez

5 years ago

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TRAINER: CLAUDIA NÚÑEZ

This training will be a review of different open source mapping software. The session will guide you step-by-step from the basics on how to visualize map data and understanding SHP and vector files, to geocoding and thematic mapping. You will also learn how to join data to maps and export your interactive map quickly and easily.

This tutorial is a the basic foundation for journalists who want to learn and explore data with maps, one of the fastest growing areas of data journalism. We will look at how data mapping has been used to narrate major stories on one of the most complex topics of our time — immigration. We will explore the opportunities that mapping technology provides to our stories while exploring ideas on how to improve immigration coverage.

Claudia Nunez gave this presentation at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in San Francisco in June 2014.

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Claudia Núñez

Claudia created the Migrahack project when she was a 2012 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She also is founder of RDataVox, which focuses on building a data visualization network for ethnic media journalists. As an award-winning reporter, Claudia specialized in immigration and U.S.-Mexican border issues, working for National Geographic, La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the United States, and the Mexican States Editors Association. In 2008, she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Hispanic Publications. She currently serves as the Spanish-language web editor for Human Rights Watch and consultant to HRW on Hispanic media outlets.