Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Education: A Call to Action

Bach, Benjamin; Keck, Mandy; Rajabiyazdi, Fateme; Losev, Tatiana; Meirelles, Isabel; Dykes, Jason; Laramee, Robert S.; AlKadi, Mashael; Stoiber, Christina; Huron, Samuel; Perin, Charles; Morais, Luiz; Aigner, Wolfgang; Kosminsky, Doris; Boucher, Magdalena; Knudsen, Søren; Manataki, Areti; Aerts, Jan; Hinrichs, Uta; Roberts, Jonathan C.; Carpendale, Sheelagh

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2023.3327378

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“…Data journalists could collaborate with researchers and educators in data and visualization literacy to understand their audiences, create pieces that intentionally foster certain competencies, and provide materials and audience observations to educators for classroom use. As Bach et al [2] point out in their call to action, there is a need for more interdisciplinary communities to discuss approaches to teaching visualization literacy -this is a community that data journalists can be a part of.…”

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“…1 Another path forward is one in which educators adapt data and visual journalism as materials in their classroom curricula. Challenges in teaching data visualization, described by Bach et al [2], include "communicating the need for visualization education" and "retaining motivation during learning visualization". Perhaps focusing visualization curriculum around current events in the news could communicate the need and provide motivation to students who may be impacted by these issues and seek to dissect them further through visualization.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of Data Journalists as Educators

Cai,

Kay

2024

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In 2020, data journalists reported on complex, dynamic issues like COVID-19 and the U.S. presidential election, publishing articles that used data to visualize a narrative and articles that explicitly instructed audiences on how to interpret data and data visualizations. Data journalism may very well be instrumental in developing the public's familiarity with and literacy in data and data visualizations, but it remains unclear how to define or measure literacy cultivated by data and visual journalism. It also remains unclear how best to support data journalists in teaching their readers. Moreover, data journalists frequently report on polarizing topics involving data that is subject to widespread disagreement. This raises the question of how to teach data and data visualization literacy while considering opposing values and ideologies among audiences. I outline existing definitions of data and data visualization literacy, and propose some future directions for how data journalists could support this literacy among their readers and partner with educators.

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confidence: 99%