Course Description
In today’s world, information is being transformed into data. Journalists need to understand how to analyse this data in order to discover new issues, gain a better understanding of the reality, and to be able to verify facts from sources. This brings power to accountability, where data is the common language and will disclose any information that is hidden. A spreadsheet forms the knowledge base that provides the springboard for Data Journalists into the world of data analysis.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify Data Analysis as a distinct stage in the Data Pipeline
- Explore data and navigate spreadsheets
- Manage small to medium datasets
- Analyse and identify trends and patterns in data
- Find new angles hidden within datasets
- Compose basic overviews of data utilising pivot tables
- Combine different sources of data in order to enrich a dataset
- Perform comprehensive spreadsheet functionality
Intended Audience
Journalists, storytellers, ands data wranglers
Course Level
Introductory
Course Length
2 days
Additional Comments
Very little data is ready for analysis without some cleaning required. Its therefore important to ensure that Data Cleaning is understood before Data Analysis is learnt. Participants must have access to their own laptop, Excel / Open (Libre) Office, an activated google account, google chrome browser.
