Interpreting and Using Visualisations in the Age of Misinformation

Instructor: Dr. Tamoghna HalderLanguage: English

About the workshop

Name: Interpreting and Using Visualisations in the Age of Misinformation
Brand: Ideasx
SKU: 6610ceb4bd85762e1316377e
Price: 499 INR
Availability: InStock

Description:

At the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:

1. Evaluate whether the visuals used to illustrate a given context is aptly chosen and designed.

2. Interpret different visuals in terms of what they reveal and conceal.

3. Use basic visualisation tools to present data based insights.

4. Detect visualisations that manipulate public opinion, or misrepresent a fact.

Key Highlights:

Understanding the impact of misinformation on visualizations
Developing critical thinking skills for interpreting data visuals
Utilizing visualizations responsibly in decision-making processes

Details

Dates:

29th June 2024

Time:

09:00 am - 3:00 pm

Location/ Mode:

Online

Who can benefit from this?

Journalists, Civil Society Organisations, Students with a

background in any non-quantitative discipline

(but may anyway need to engage with basic statistics).

Pre-Requisite:

Familiarity with Excel at a basic level (knowing how to open

a file in Excel, selecting columns, copy -pasting data).

Learning Outcomes

1

Evaluation

Evaluate whether the visuals used to illustrate a given context are aptly chosen and designed.

2

Interpretation

Interpret different visuals in terms of what they reveal and conceal.

3

Application

Use basic visualisation tools to present data based insights.

4

Detection

Detect visualisations that manipulate public opinion, or misrepresent a fact.

THE OUTLINE

Day 1

Session 1 (90 minutes)

9:00- 10:30 am

20 minutes: Introduction to visualisations: Why we need it, why we need to be careful about interpreting it.
20 minutes: Introduction to Bar charts of different kinds.
20 minutes: Introduction to Pie and Doughnut charts of different kinds.
15-20 minutes: Hands on applications in Excel.
10 - 15 minutes buffer for discussion.

Session 2 (90 minutes)

11:00-12:30 pm

10 minutes: Introduction to how charts lie
20 minutes:What are the components of chart making and how these components can be misused to mislead public opinions.
20 minutes: Example of misleading bar charts and pie charts from across the world.
20 minutes: How to carefully interpret spatial maps, and detect misleading ones.
20 minutes: Caveats of using similar visualisation tools across contexts.

Session 3 (90 minutes)

01:30-3:00 pm.

15 minutes: Summary of Session 1 and 2.
20 minutes: A group exercise based on different graphs that are presented to the participants. Followed by discussion of the same.

20 minutes: What are some other visualisation tools that are used in popular media and public communication, how to interpret them?
20 minutes:Equivalence between graphs and tables, when to use/avoid what.
15 minutes: Concluding discussion/wrap up.

YOUR MENTOR

Dr. Tamoghna Halder

Tamoghna Halder is assistant professor at

the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, where he teaches Economics. His research interest

lies in Economic History of Identities, as well as Economics and Politics of Identity.

His doctoral research examines social mobility and segregation by caste in Bengal for a period of 150 years (1857 - 2017). He is currently teaching courses in Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Identity, Statistics, and Communicating Economics.

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