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2021 Community of Practice

We focused on sharing knowledge and experiences on data storytelling and visualisation. We held a behind-the-scenes talk with practitioners from some of the world’s most known indices as well as award winning data journalists.

Composite Indicators

3 December 2021 | 14:30-17:40

Agenda

Community of Practice meeting: From data to stories

14:30 Opening

Michaela Saisana


14:40 The Composite Indicators & Scoreboards Explorer Launch

Michaela Saisana, Carlos Moura, Ana Rita Neves


15:00 Roundtable: How to make compelling stories with your indexes?

As data becomes the challenge of our time, indexes have the ability to turn complex issues into digestible narratives. How do you find your key messages in the numbers? How do you make it to the media and to policymakers? In this session, we hold a behind-the-scenes talk with practitioners from some of the world’s most exciting indexes on combining data, visuals and narratives.
Moderation: Ana Rita Neves
Simon Anholt, Good Country Index
Saamah Abdallah, Happy Planet Index
Albert Motivans, SDG Gender Index
Michael Green, Social Progress Index


16:10 Coffee Break

16:20 Special Session: Data stories

Data is everywhere but the ability to make sense of data remains a challenge which only a few can master. In this session, we invite data journalists and data visualization experts to share with us how they develop compelling stories with data. In a conversation with them, we ask about their favourite data stories as well as common mistakes to avoid. 
Moderation: Valentina Alberti
Divyanshi Wadhwa, Junior Data Scientist, SDG Atlas 2020, World Bank
John Burn-Murdoch, Data Journalist, Financial Times UK
Marie Segger, Data Journalist, The Economist
Pamela Duncan, Data Journalist, The Guardian


17:40 End of the Community of Practice meeting

 

Invited speakers

Albert Motivans

Equal Measures 2030

Divyanshi Wadhwa

World Bank

John Burn-Murdoch

Financial Times

Marie Segger

The Economist

Michael Green

Social Progress Index
TED Talk

Pamela Duncan

The Guardian

Saamah Abdallah

Happy Planet index

Simon Anholt

Good Country Index
TED Talk

 

Downloads

Community of Practice Highlights: From data to stories

Opening, Michaela Saisana

Happy Planet Index, Saamah Abdallah

SDG Gender Index, Albert Motivans

SDG Atlas 2020, Divyanshi Wadhwa, World Bank

Telling stories with data, Marie Segger, The Economist

Building engaging stories with data, Pamela Duncan, The Guardian

 

Video

Collegamento 3 December | Community of Practice