Motivating examples; project descriptions
Open data: First steps in negotiating for data
Understanding the strategy in project selection
Initial data discovery
Project launches
Finding your project focus: discussion
Workbench hands-on
How to search effectively for key data and background individuals and entities
Keeping a data and document log
Art of the interview
Framing key questions: the initial pitch, minimum and maximum stories
Data analysis challenges
Workbench check-in
Reporting results
Data analysis veracity checks
Long-form story structures
Data negotiations: lessons learned; next steps
Story-telling, framing the top equals an outline
Visualizing data for story
Finding the gaps/Avoiding assumptions
Write-through: Storytelling and story structure, from the numbers in the narrative to the people in the numbers
Bulletproofing the analysis and story
Workbench evaluation
Thanksgiving Week
Presentations
Fact-checking and final edits
Workbench analysis and report
Presentations
Fact-checking and final edits