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This course covers methods of data-driven journalism and tools for empirical storytelling. Students gather data, clean data, analyze data and present data in multimedia formats.

Above all the technical components, however, this Data Skills course will help you work with data about and for your community. You will produce stories that your audience wants.

You will

• Identify newsworthy datasets
• Conduct data interviews
• Understand your audience
• Tell interactive data-driven stories
• Build your technical skills
• Fine tune your editorial judgment
• Author and publish your own analysis
• Experiment with tools

We will

• Use spreadsheets and data management software
• Do basic scraping and extract tables from PDFs
• Create visualizations
• Learn the command line
• Do FOIA requests
• Maintain data logs
• Report news
• Prepare work to be published online