A collaborative workshop on data representation and understanding
As we are reminded by the Covid-19 health crisis, data are now central to our society and our relationship to data is therefore becoming a major issue. For this reason, it is essential to stimulate data literacy, which implies promoting access to data and the ability of non-specialists to read, work with, analyze and argue with data.
On November 9, as part of the Swiss Digital Day 2021, EPFL, the University of Neuchâtel, Heidi.news and RTS organized, with support from IMI, a collaborative workshop in Lausanne on data literacy with journalists, researchers and experts.
What role do data play in shaping public opinion? Do the news media deal with data in an appropriate manner? What relationship do citizens have with data and their visual representation? This event, which brought together around 50 participants, was an opportunity to deconstruct the simple relationship we have sometimes with data, in small groups, through hands-on experience and the sharing of ideas.
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