Data Journalism

Finding the story in a spreadsheet means running a fixed sequence of moves on a dataset — sort, filter, pivot, compute, compare — until … Read more

To make a chart that does not mislead readers, you match the visual to the data: a zero baseline for bar length, a defensible … Read more

An election results map takes the numbers from an election return and draws them onto real geography, so readers can see not just who … Read more

You can become a data journalist with no coding experience, and the path starts with a spreadsheet. Most entry-level data work is filtering, sorting … Read more

The fastest way to learn Python for data journalism is to work through real reporting projects in a browser notebook, starting with syntax and … Read more

An interactive map for a news story is a web-based map readers can pan, zoom and click, built by joining your data to coordinates … Read more

To clean messy data in Excel, you work on a copy, fix one problem class at a time, and record every change you make. … Read more