Fifth GNI Data Dialogue Workshop Session

 The Google News Initiative, in partnership with Data Leads, organized its fifth "Data Dialogue" workshop on January 13, 2023. It was a one-day workshop and was hosted by the KIIT School of Mass Communication at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Campus 7. The "Data Dialogue" is a pan-India data journalism training series that aims to organize this workshop in 20 different cities across India in English and 10 other Indian languages. This series of workshops is open to editors, reporters, and journalism students and aims at empowering its participants to unlock the powerful world of data journalism using the best of Google tools so that they are able to find, verify, and tell engaging stories. Also, it would assist in connecting with their audience in a better manner.

 

 

The workshop commenced with the lighting of the holy lamp by the dignitaries. This was followed by the opening remarks, which were given by Prof. Rajeev Kumar Panda, the Coordinator of the School of Mass Communication at KIIT as well as a Google News Initiative trainer. He introduced the respected dignitaries to the gathering. The present dignitaries were Prof. Jnyana Ranjan Mohanty, Registrar, KIIT. Deemed to be University, Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee, Regional Director, IIMC Dhenkanal, Jyoti Singh Rathore, Deputy Program Manager at Data Leads, and Anoushka Dalmia, Data Journalism Trainer at Data Leads. Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee was the keynote speaker. He gave a speech on information, the finding and verification of data, and its relevance in journalism.

                                                                             

   

 

The sessions were led by data journalism expert and trainer Anoushka Dalmia from the GNI India Training Network. The workshop mainly focused on four key areas: data sourcing, data cleaning, data visualization, and data verification. The workshop taught the use of many powerful and handy tools, like Google Trends, Tabula, MS Excel or spreadsheets, Flourish, Google Pinpoint, Wayback Machine, and Wolfram Alpha. These tools can be used for extracting verified and accurate data from a data source. This workshop helped many budding data journalists and media educators.