J219 MINI The Accountability Project: Building Newsroom Data Tools (Seven weeks 10/14-12/2)
This is a seven week mini course that starts on Oct. 14 – Dec. 2. It is only open to second-year students. The Accountability Project (TAP): Building newsroom Data Tools is a searchable collection of hundreds of databases containing nearly 2 billion public records. Students will play a vital role in this project from the…
Read MoreJ221 Intro to Visualizing Data
This is a course in finding and telling visual stories from data. We will cover fundamental principles of data analysis and visual presentation, chart types and when to use them, and how to acquire, process and “interview” data. We will make interactive and static charts and maps using free software. We will be making graphics…
Read MoreJ220: Coding for Journalists (online)
NOTE: Non-journalism students may also take this course, but must request enrollment here: https://forms.gle/ai53qxezzsn9kZc87 This course introduces foundational concepts of computer programming and computational thinking in ways they would be used in the journalism industry. Students who have successfully completed earlier versions of this course have gone on to work in newsrooms in roles…
Read MoreJ298 Covering Inequality with Data
Data skills are vital for journalists. Often the deepest learning comes when those skills are applied to a specific topic. Students in this course will learn advanced data journalism skills, including statistics and programming to work with data. The data and examples we use will focus on disparity on a range of topics including race,…
Read MoreJ298 Intro to Data-Driven Journalism
It’s 2026. Most government information is stored on computers. If journalists want to cover issues in their communities and across the country, they need to be able to use data. In addition, most investigative stories rely on findings from data analyses. If you’re ready to add these skills to your journalist’s toolkit (whether investigative or…
Read MoreJ221 Intro to Visualizing Data
This is a course in finding and telling visual stories from data. We will cover fundamental principles of data analysis and visual presentation, chart types and when to use them, and how to acquire, process and “interview” data. We will make interactive and static charts and maps using free software. We will be making graphics…
Read MoreJ298 Intro to Data-Driven Journalism
Data skills are vital for journalists. Often the deepest learning comes when those skills are applied to a specific topic. Students in this course will learn advanced data journalism skills, including statistics and programming to work with data. The data and examples we use will focus on disparity on a range of topics including race,…
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J233 Advanced JavaScript
This course is an introduction to programming concepts as they relate to the journalism industry. The goal of this course is to equip students with a foundational computational literacy to construct interactive online stories such as data visualizations, infographics, maps, multimedia packages, games or other types of projects students may conceive. This course teaches students…
Read MoreJ225 Datify Your Captstone Project
This course starts on Tuesday Oct. 22 and will run 7 weeks long. Every journalism story has a data angle to be uncovered. And every student working on a master’s capstone project could use support on data topics. This is a seven-week graduate-level seminar course designed for journalism graduate students to learn how to find,…
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