Journalists, designers, developers and public information officers can register for this free online course.
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas has brought together five experts, including practitioners from The New York Times, ProPublica, NPR and the Houston Chronicle, to teach the Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC) in English, “Data-Driven Journalism: The Basics.”
The MOOC will give participants an overview of what data-driven journalism is and how it is practiced in newsrooms in the United States. Besides learning about the basics of this increasingly vital discipline, students will learn how data is used in the media industry today, where to locate data, how to clean and analyze it critically, and how to optimize the presentation of information for maximum readability and interactivity.
The five-week course, from Aug. 12 to Sept. 16, will have a different instructor leading the class each week. The instructors and the topics they will cover are:
- Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University – Intro to Data Journalism
- Lise Olsen, Houston Chronicle – Where to Find Data and the Stories
- Derek Willis, The New York Times – How to Interview the Data
- Jeremy Bowers, National Public Radio – How to Bring Data to Life, Part 1
- Sisi Wei, ProPublica – How to Bring Data to Life, Part 2
For more information, click here: https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/00-14174-team-experts-teach-knight-centers-new-mooc-data-driven-journalism-basics-register-now