Education Leader Program / Len De Groot
Len De Groot
Berkeley, CA
School affiliations
Websites and Publications
- Departmental blog
- The Multimedia Journalist: Storytelling for Today’s Media Landscape - Oxford University Press, 2012 (contributed chapter on information graphics)
"The best data scientists I've ever worked with are storytellers"
-DJ Patil
Len De Groot is a lecturer in UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches courses in Data Visualization (including GIS, cartographic and informational design and several JavaScript visualization libraries) and Election Politics & Data. He is especially interested in telling stories with web apps. He’s working on a set of visualizations that predict congressional elections using Twitter conversations and he created freeDive, a tool that creates embeddable, searchable databases with visualizations.
De Groot is also the Interactive Design & Data Instructor at kdmcBerkeley, one of the U.S.’ leading organization teaching mid-career professionals to tell stories with video, photos and graphics. De Groot has nearly 20 years of newsroom experience and previously was graphics director for a TV station, newspaper, and multiple websites in South Florida. While there he created and directed award-winning news graphics for print, online, and animated news graphics and packages for news shows and promotions.
