Workshop: Data Visualization for transparent storytelling

The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFPC-USA) partners with Microsoft News, offering a two-hour workshop on data visualization. In this workshop, foreign correspondents will learn how to create transparent storytelling and increase the efficiency of their reporting.

About Microsoft News: Microsoft News powers content experiences across the entire Microsoft ecosystem, including Bing, Windows, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Edge. Every day, we curate over 170,000 stories, photos, and videos from 4,500 publishing partners and deliver them to more than 550 million people in 180 countries via editions in 31 languages. Through our Microsoft News Labs program, we work side-by-side with journalists and newsrooms to build solutions and skills that advance the art, science, and business of journalism, like driving transparent storytelling through data journalism (Politico EU’s European Elections hub), boosting operational and reporting workflows (newsroom training), and scaling investigations and research with the power of AI (Atlantic’s archives solution). Join us to talk about how Microsoft works with journalists at every stage of the process of creation, curation, and consumption.

Our trainer’s bio: Jake Bayliss is a Power BI Trainer, graduated from Waikato University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer Science. Jake started at Enlighten Designs at the beginning of 2018 as a Developer and has been a part of the Data & AI team ever since. He predominantly works with Power BI and Azure services and has been training many different types of people in how to tell engaging stories with data. As software development is his main background, he loves creating custom visuals and extending what Power BI has to offer by finding interesting and creative ways to show data to get readers more engaged and excited.