Overview
Description
Learn techniques and strategies for using numerical data for investigative and explanatory journalism.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze factual assertions and determine their reliability.
- constitute statistical proof, be able to assess the credibility of scientific studies and report on studies accurately.
- locate, download, clean and manipulate publicly available databases and spreadsheets.
- compute correlations, median, means and estimates and understand what they mean.
- demonstrate familiarity with public information laws.
- develop data narratives; find stories in data; find data to support stories.
- recognize and critically evaluate the challenges in data journalism practices.