Data analysis
Spreadsheets for journalism
Many journalists see themselves as “word people” and shy away from writing about numbers. Brant Houston shows how to embrace math with an overview of spreadsheets and functions for beginners.
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Accounting for Methods in Data Journalism: Spreadsheets, Scripts and Programming Notebooks
With the rise of data journalism, ideas around what can be considered a journalistic source...
Reinventing news values for data journalism and ‘clickstream culture’
From audience metrics, to spreadsheets and databases hoovered up during news-gathering, Dick Murray looks at how the explosion of data in journalism affects the news.
Inside the FinCEN Files: How ICIJ analysed damning data on big banks and dirty money
More than 85 journalists in 30 countries collaborated on the FinCEN Files investigation. It involved extracting data on more than $2 trillion dollars in transactions between 1999 and 2017 reported as suspicious to a US treasury department.
AMA with Code for Africa
From Cameroon to Uganda, this edition looks at the work undertaken by Code for Africa to open data up for better use by the region’s journalists.
Reproducible journalism
For this conversation, we got talking with Jeremy Singer-Vine, Stephen Stirling, Timo Grossenbacher, and more, about how to set your stories up for repeatability.
Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
When we launched the Datablog, we had no idea who would be interested in raw...
Contributors
Paul Bradshaw
Course leader, MA Data Journalism & MA Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism and Data journalist
Data journalist and online journalism academic, trainer, writer and speaker
Jonathan Stoneman
Journalism Trainer
Former BBC journalist turned trainer and data enthusiast/obsessive.
Djordje Padejski
Associate Director, Lecturer
Data/investigative journalist, educator and scholar working at the intersection of journalism, digital technologies and computational journalism, @ICIJ member, @FOIAMachine founder, @CIRonline, @OCCRP, @CINSerbia