TALKIN' ABOUT DATA

I AM

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Hello,

I'm Filippo Mastroianni

Data Driven Journalism, Data Visualization, dashboards and analytics.

Tableau Desktop Certified Professional, Tableau Ambassador, Former Tableau Featured Author.

As Data Visualization Specialist, Filippo helps organizations make data driven decisions. He worked in different sectors, helping clients make sense of their data and embraces a new analytical culture. He has also several years of experience in online and print media as data journalist, designing engaging graphics and writing news stories for Il Sole24Ore and other media organizations. He has ability to pitch and write balanced, informative and compelling news stories to tight deadlines, remaining calm under pressure. Filippo uses Alteryx for ETL, data cleansing and data manipulation.

Filippo knows how to find stories and value in data and how to visualize them, trying to give voice to the numbers and the stories they have to tell. Even if his analytical background is important, his design skills help him to communicate his intuitions to others in an effective way.

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Education
Università degli Studi

Bachelor degree of Science in Communication

Politecnico di Milano

Architectural Engineering

Liceo Scientifico A.Banfi

A-Level Scientific Lyceum


Experience
Senior Consultant
Data Visualization Specialist

The Information Lab Italia

Data Journalist

Il Sole24Ore

Gazzetta dello Sport

Marketing Specialist

AudioNova Italia


My Skills
Data Visualization
Tableau
Alteryx
Data Analysis

11

Viz of the Day

124

Vizzes on Tableau Public

Several

Dashboards published on Il Sole24Ore

Several

Illustrations Made

WHAT CAN I DO

Analytics

I help organizations make data-driven decisions.

Business Consultancy

I use Tableau and Alteryx to help companies make sense of data.

Dashboard Design

I create valuable and engaging dashboards.

Data Journalism

I write news stories and design dataviz suitable for use in Journalism.

Illustrations

I use graphic software to improve my viz with icons and illustrations.

It's All About Data

Everything revolves around data, and more so every day. My work too.


WHY FREE DATA

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows"

___ George Orwell, 1984 ___

WHY DEVELOP NEW SKILLS

“Every skill you don’t have leaves a whole class of stories out of your reach. And data stories are usually the ones that are hiding in plain sight.”

___ Scott Klein ___

BE A JOURNALIST IN A DATA DRIVEN WORLD

"But having an open data portal doesn’t automatically make you a haven of freedom – even Bahrain and Saudi Arabia now have open data portals. [...] This is where data journalists come in – by exposing and interrogating the data, we can test how accurate it is, mash it up with other datasets to produce results that tell you something new about the news.

___ Simon Rogers ___
SOME OF WORK
All on the blog Il Sole 24 Ore Viz of the Day Tableau Tutorials Datablog

The Data JournaLIST - week1

HOT TOPIC OF THE WEEK

AMAZON RAINFOREST
Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil - the most intense blazes for almost a decade. I'm sure you read a lot of pieces about this topic and you had many questions about the fires. Several media organizations worked on the Amazon fires, trying to collect some of the answers. Click on the orange link to read the articles.

1. THE GUARDIAN

 Amazon fires: what is happening and is there anything we can do? 
The Guardian worked on the topic to understand why people should be worried about the blazes and increased deforestation in Brazil. With data and mapping you can easily understand the scale of the problem. With an intuitive comparison beetween the forest and London. Did you know that an area of London that stretches from Hyde Park to Tower Bridge was cleared every day?



2. THE NEW YORK TIMES

  What Satellite Imagery Tells Us About the Amazon Rain Forest Fires  
Scientists studying satellite image data from the fires in the Amazon rain forest said that most of the fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared. The analysis on The New York Times shows month-by-month pattern of fires across the Amazon rain forest in Brazil each year since 2001. The increase in fires every August to October coincides with the season when farmers begin planting soybean and corn. Maps are very useful in this piece to tell the story of the forest.

3. BLOOMBERG

 Here’s Where the Amazon Is Burning and Why It’s Going to Get Worse 

With the use of maps and charts the Bloomberg's team explains how the rate of deforestation in the Amazon jumped 73% from 2012 to 2018, even if indigenous lands had largely been effective barriers against deforestation. Bloomberg cross-reference with data about Brazilian soy exports and beef production is one of the most interesting things of the piece.


4. BBC

 The Amazon in Brazil is on fire - how bad is it? 
Like others, BBC worked with maps and visualization to tell the story of the deforestation. But there's something more. BBC looks also at the smoke and carbon that is travelling along the Atlantic Coast. If you want to know more about the carbon monoxide emission you can read the article.



5. LA NACION

 Resumen visual de los incendios que avanzan sin control en el Amazonas 
La Nacion published a wonderful visual resume of what's happening in Brazil. From the map to the CO2 emissions with interactive viz. Here's the story from a point of view really close to Brazil.

Journalist in Russia: numbers of a dangerous job

Be a Journalist in Russia is not as in many other countries. Wars, crimes, terrorism, political assassinations. These are all the dangers that a Russian journalist (or a foreign correspondent in Russia) must face. 

The Committee to Protect Journalist collects data on journalists disappeared in the various corners of the world. The organization is independent, nonprofit and promotes press freedom worldwide. They defend the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. My analysis was concentrated on Russia. The dataviz tells a country full of contradictions and reporters' stories that have lost their lives in recent years.

This dataviz has some mistakes in graphic choices. It's one of my first projects, and I was not yet aware about visualization and its rules. For example a treemap is not the best choice to represent small numbers. But I want to observe my evolution, also with my mistakes.

Click below and go to the interactive Viz!

That is all on Data

Contact Me
Milan, Italy
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