Registration opens March 21

Dates: May 11 – 27, 2016

Times: 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. M-F

Instructor: Ryan Thornburg

Learning how to work with data helps young reporters find stories their competitors can’t and gives them skills that are in high demand.

In this hands-on class we’ll use data journalism tools to learn how to find, clean, analyze and present data.

Topics Covered

• Interviewing data: How numbers can lie
• Organizing data in Excel
• Cleaning data with Refine
• Analyzing data with SQL
• Introduction to data scraping
• Negotiating access: requesting government data
• Location data: introduction to GIS and mapping