Data Journalism Course
This course equips journalists with essential skills to analyze public data, create compelling stories, and maintain ethical standards in data-driven reporting.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Data Journalism Course teaches how to transform public data into clear, reliable stories. You'll learn to pose sharp questions, locate and assess open datasets, extract and tidy up messy files, and connect spending to results without exaggerating cause and effect. You'll practise basic statistical tests, create user-friendly visuals, and record your methods, ethics, and sources to ensure your work is precise, open, and publication-ready.
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Develop skills
- Investigative data framing: convert newsroom queries into testable data perspectives.
- Public data sourcing: swiftly locate, verify, and record impactful civic datasets.
- Data cleaning for journalists: extract, correct, and combine untidy PDFs, CSVs, and APIs.
- Visual storytelling: create straightforward charts and narratives for non-expert audiences.
- Ethical, reproducible workflows: record methods, limitations, and legal data usage.
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