This is my summer project and probably part of the focus of my next sabbatical…
This Digital Media Data Guru can do it all: Understand the nuances of digital media technologies. Know how to communicate and disseminate information across a variety of digital platforms. Understand how to curate and filter the information. Know how to program information into effective and powerful applications, digital interfaces or digital frameworks. Know how to make the presentation of this information clear, accurate, free of complication, and aesthetically pleasing. Know the appropriate programming languages that will suit the information on hand and how to make it accessible, searchable and digestible for a variety of digital platforms. Understand how data can be arranged, curated, segmented and analyzed within the context of existent information. (via At the intersection of journalism, data science, and digital media: How can j-schools prep students for the world they’re headed into? » Nieman Journalism Lab)