Unlock the Power of Data Summer Workshop on Storytelling with Data for High School Students
Ignite Your Creativity and Transform Numbers into Compelling Stories! Welcome to the Exciting World of Data Storytelling! Get ready for a two-week 2024 summer of creativity, exploration, and discovery as you dive into the captivating realm of data storytelling! Join the University of Silicon Andhra (UofSA) The School of Computing at the University of Silicon Andhra (UofSA) invites you to join the upcoming summer workshop, where you will actively engage in learning to weave narratives from raw data, turning information into impactful stories that resonate and inspire. Learn the art of turning data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive real-world impact. Immerse yourself in practical exercises using industry-standard tools, gaining valuable hands-on experience that goes beyond theoretical knowledge. Whether you are passionate about science, humanities, or business, data storytelling transcends disciplines, providing a valuable skill set applicable across various fields. This workshop will empower you with creativity, critical thinking and computational problem skills, which are vital for exploring, analyzing, and presenting insights hidden in the raw data.
Who can enroll?
- High school students who have completed at least one course in Algebra. Computer programming background is not required.
- A personal laptop is required.
- Registration is required, and seats are limited. The registration deadline is May 31, 2024.
- Registration fee: $995
- Register at https://soc.uofsa.edu/summercamp2024
This workshop is different from your typical classroom experience. You will engage in interactive sessions, collaborative projects, and practical exercises that make learning enjoyable and memorable. Prepare to think creatively, work with peers, and have fun while mastering data analysis, visualization, and communication concepts and techniques. A data science professor with over thirty years of academic and industry experience will guide you every step of the way. You will benefit from personalized mentorship, gaining insights and advice from someone deeply immersed in data science.
Workshop topics
- Extracting, normalizing and transforming data
- Data quality assessment
- Exploratory data analysis
- Data storytelling principles
- Effective visuals and use cases
- Preattentive attributes to capture audience’s attention
- Visual designs
- Power of repetition and narrative flow
- Graphics, Grid, and Lattice R packages
- ggplot2 and ggvis R Packages
- Dynamic visualization with Plotly
- Pulling it all together
Technologies and tools used in the workshop
- Quarto (an open-source scientific and technical publishing system to tell stories with data).
- R is an easy to learn, high-level programming language. Data storytelling will use the R language and relevant R packages (all open-source).
- Base R graphics provides functions to create several different statistical charts and means to customize the plots or to add more elements, such as points, texts, legends or lines.
- Lattice graphics package implements the Trellis Graphics system. It is a powerful and elegant high-level data visualization system with an emphasis on multivariate data.
- Grid graphics package. The
gridpackage in R implements the primitive graphical functions that underlie the ggplot2 plotting system (see below). - ggplot2 graphics package is used to declaratively/programmatically creating graphics based on The Grammar of Graphics framework.
- ggvis interactive graphics package is a data visualization package for R. You can create interactive graphics visualizations.
- Plotly library for dynamic visualization.
Do not Miss Your Chance to Become a Data Storyteller! Apply Now and Embark on a Two-week Summer Journey Where Data Comes Alive!
Workshop dates and time
- June 17 – June 28, 2024; 10 am – 4 pm, weekdays.
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