Charts and maps have become ubiquitous in todays newsrooms. They convey stories with numbers much better than text alone does and they are shared easily. But not every journalist is a numbercruncher or a graphics designer. And a lot of newsrooms, especially smaller ones, don’t have the means to employ graphic journalists that can craft charts and maps. In this course we introduce and learn to use some tools every journalist can adopt to produce graphics that can support or carry a story.

Make sure you know how to protect your work against all kind of errors that could arise from working with data.

In this course we'll introduce and demonstrate some useful Excel commands and formulas for cleaning up and transforming data. But you’ll also learn some strategies and tricks for managing your data cleaning processes.

After this module, you’ll be able to make static and interactive maps, you will know a bit about geographical data and its different file formats, and you will be able to turn lists of addresses into dots on a map automatically.

In the age of the Internet, rumors and hoaxes quickly spread during breaking news situations. As a result, there is an increased need for journalists to sort real, authentic content from the fakes. This course will provide the basics on how to get started with verifying online information.

Going Viral Using Social Media Analytics walks you through metrics and analytics that are useful for writers, ways to optimize your site for social media, how to grow a loyal audience and how to figure out whether your organization is on the right track. We bring order to the analytics chaos and show you which metrics you need when and why.

Comprising of video lectures, tutorials, assignments, readings and discussion forums, this course is open to anyone in the world with an Internet connection who wants to tell stories with data.

This Python for Journalists course is meant for those who dabbled in Python, but somehow didn't persevere; and for those who can't wait to dive in head first... Though no programming knowledge is required, it helps if you know what a terminal or command prompt is and if you are familiar with Excel.

R is getting more and more popular among Data Journalists worldwide. It can be used for complex statistics, but it can also be used to clean, join and superficially analyse data.

In this course we're going through some of the tips and tricks on how to make your own research faster and more accurate using Google's tools. We will go from advanced search through to verification, touching upon visualisation and finishing up with Geo mapping tools to help you tell your stories in a beautiful, interactive way online.

This is an introductory course specially designed for journalists who are or may become victims of online hate. The course covers a range of topics and offers practical guidance that equips journalists with appropriate tools to deal with hateful comments and attacks online.