Data Journalism Course
This course equips journalists with essential skills to harness public data for impactful, ethical storytelling, from sourcing and cleaning data to creating visuals and ensuring transparency.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Data Journalism Course demonstrates how to transform public data into clear, reliable stories. Learn to pose incisive questions, locate and assess open datasets, extract and tidy disorganised files, and connect spending to outcomes without exaggerating causality. Practise basic statistical analyses, create accessible visuals, and record methods, ethics, and sources to ensure your work is precise, transparent, and suitable for publication.
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Develop skills
- Investigative data framing: convert newsroom queries into testable data perspectives.
- Public data sourcing: swiftly locate, evaluate, and record high-impact civic datasets.
- Data cleaning for journalists: extract, correct, and combine disorganised PDFs, CSVs, and APIs.
- Visual storytelling: create clear charts and narratives for non-technical audiences.
- Ethical, reproducible workflows: record methods, limitations, and data usage in compliance with the law.
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