The course provides students with the hands-on training needed to tell data-driven stories in the public interest. The goal is to train students on telling visual stories with — and about — data. They will learn to find stories in data, cleaning data - how to make the data make sense, scraping data - using the web as a data source, visualizing the data – charts, infographics and mapping. As part of the course, students are expected to complete 2/3 data-driven journalism projects, especially in election, health, and sports beats – working to discover and use the tools to fit the job and turning it into a compelling story.
