Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The University of Sheffield
This online course provided the foundational knowledge and skills to use data for journalism. The course covered topics including the concept of data, data journalism, data collection, FOI skills, data cleaning and analysis, analysing and understanding data, presenting data and data ethics.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jingrong Tong
Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures, Department of Journalism Studies
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify data sources and use tools to collect data for reporting
- Apply FOI techniques in your own practice
- Identify basic errors in data and prepare data for analysis
- Improve your understanding of data and skills to present data
- Improve knowledge of data journalism
- Improve, evaluate and reflect on ethical practices of using data for journalism
Syllabus
- Data journalism
- Data collection
- FOI skills
- Data cleaning and analysis
- Understanding data
- Presenting data
- Data ethics
Issued on 17th April 2024
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