- After reading Cairo, one sort of graphic that I look forward to learning how to make is a percentage change graphic. I think it is a good visual and helps explain a more ambiguous set of numbers and statistics that a reader doesn’t see every day. I also learned the importance of the headline when Cairo talked about the grad school and job prospect survey. Journalists can almost twist the meaning of a story in their favor if they aren’t careful.
- One thing when interviewing that I need to work on is “for every one question ask 5 more.” I usually try to go into an interview very organized and with a set of questions that I want to make sure I hit, and while that is important I need to also make sure that the story is going in the right direction and have flexibility that it might change. I also haven’t had much experience interviewing people in their “natural habitats” or on the job in action, but for this project it will be important to set the scene of the employees working so I will need to make sure I am more observant and incorporate their surroundings into the story.
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Good blog post. The percentage change graphic is something we will do. What dataset would it be most useful for at this point, do you think?