Computer-Assisted Reporting and Data Journalism Syllabuses

This is a collection of computational and data journalism courses for which there is a publicly available homepage or syllabus suitable for others to use as a guiding reference, i.e. basically anything that shows up in a Google search for syllabus + computational/data/research + journalism / computer assisted reporting.

Data/computational journalism is still a relatively new field, so it can be hard to know what's possible to fit in a curriculum. Hopefully, the 230+ course syllabuses – and in many cases, open source code/data repos – listed here can provide helpful guidance!

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Background info

This list includes courses from as early as 1997 and several taught in countries not in North America. I started compiling this list before teaching at Stanford in 2014. In June 2016, I uploaded it here and made a few updates, but it's not complete or consistent by any means. It includes a few not-really computational/journalism courses, which I may trim later, and misses anything not found via Google or from the top of my head.

The list of courses – which is at the end of this README file – is generated from a YAML file that you can see in its raw glory here: some-syllabi.yaml

Related resources

• For investigative journalism syllabi, the Investigative Journalism Education Consortium maintains lists here:

  • https://ijec.org/car-and-data-syllabi/
  • http://ijec.org/syllabi/ (old?)

• Investigative Reporters & Editors also maintains a collection: https://ire.org/resource-center/educators-center/syllabi/

• Also relevant: This report by Charles Berret (Columbia University) and Cheryl Phillips (Stanford University): Teaching Data and Computational Journalism

How to contribute

You can create an issue and drop a URL, and (hopefully) I'll add it to the source YAML file.

If you want to take a hands-on approach, read CONTRIBUTE.md

The Course List

There are currently 234 courses listed.

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Data Storytelling » 2021; Spring University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Syllabus Data has become an invaluable resource to produce great stories. However, like any sources, datasets should be treated with skepticism and ethical considerations. This class introduces students to the development process for creating data stories: Acquire, clean, analyze, and visualize data using va... Instructors: Margaret Ng
Intro To Coding News Packages » 2020; Spring University of California, Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus This is a class that teaches students how to conceive and construct online news packages for both mobile and desktop. Students will work to produce stories in a variety of media (text, photos, video, graphics, and interactives) and construct a website to display the story in an engaging way. Focus w... Instructors: Jeremy Rue
Dataviz & Mapping » 2020; Spring University of Florida Syllabus This course covers the foundational skills required for any professional communicator who seeks to tell a visual data story for audiences that rely on cellphones, as well as the basics of geospatial analysis. The emphasis is on data evaluation using code-free tools. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing ... Instructors: Norman Lewis
Data Journalism » 2020; Spring City University of New York Syllabus Data sets are everywhere. In public sources, like election results, budgets and census reports; semi-public and private datasets, like hidden company information; in cross referencing people and organizations in documents and databases to discover conflicts of interest; in social media updates, imag... Instructors: Lam Thuy Vo, Madeleine Varner
Advanced Web Apps for Communicators » 2020; Spring University of Florida Homepage / Syllabus This course adds server-side (back-end) Web skills to the client-side (front-end) Web skills students have developed in the preceding course, with the goal of developing Web apps that include a server-side component to support presentations of stories and large data sets for media organizations. Web... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Reporting Methods » 2020; Winter Carleton University Homepage 1) Obtain a thorough grounding in journalistic research methods. 2) Acquire skills needed to make sense of the information gathered. 3) Develop the ability to shape the information into accurate and compelling stories for all platforms. Instructors: David McKie, Jim Bronskill
Programming in Journalism » 2020; Winter Stanford University Homepage This course introduces general purpose programming skills commonly used in the news. Students will gain basic proficiency in the Unix shell and Python programming while practicing skills such as web scraping, acquiring data from public APIs, cleaning and transforming data, and working with spreadshe... Instructors: Serdar Tumgoren
Data Journalism with R and the Tidyverse » 2020 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage / Syllabus In this book, you’ll get a taste of modern data journalism through programming in R, a statistics language. You’ll be challenged to think programmatically while thinking about a story you can tell to readers in a way that they’ll want to read. They might seem like two different sides of the brain – ... Instructors: Matt Waite
Data Journalism » 2020 Cardiff University Homepage / Syllabus Data journalism at its broadest sees any information in a digitised form as a potential journalistic resource. Digging for this information with computerised tools and supplementing it with traditional journalistic methods is the task of the data journalist Instructors: Aidan O'Donnell
Sports Data Analysis and Visualization » 2019; Summer University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage / Syllabus The entire course is in R and promotes replicable methods for data analysis to students who likely have done no programmatic data analysis and have zero experience working with code. The course philosophy, given those realities, is to have lots of small assignments that build on each other step by s... Instructors: Matt Waite
Data Journalism » 2019; Spring University of California, Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus Students in this course will be expected to become familiar with the use of data in order to produce stories with impact, authority and distinction. Data — large sets of information and numbers — are becoming increasingly available from public, private and social media sources. As a result, journali... Instructors: T. Christian Miller
Data Journalism » 2019; Spring University of Florida Syllabus This is a hands-on course. You’ll learn to use data to illuminate trends and tell stories. You’ll get comfortable importing and cleaning data and building your own spreadsheets. Then you’ll practice using tools like Microsoft Excel and SQL to analyze information. The classroom will be part learning ... Instructors: Adam Playford, Kathleen McGreory
Introduction to Web Apps for Communicators » 2019; Fall University of Florida Homepage / Syllabus This is not a course where you “learn to make websites.” (Making websites is so 2005.) It is a course in which you will learn to code, and by “code” I mean write functional programs that run in a Web browser — not just make Web pages. It is an introductory course. It has no prerequisites. However, s... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Introduction to Data Visualization » 2019; Fall University of California at Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus This is a course in finding and telling visual stories from data. We will cover fundamental principles of data analysis and visual presentation, chart types and when to use them, and how to acquire, process and “interview” data. We will make interactive and static charts and maps using free software... Instructors: Peter Aldhous
Data Literacy for Communicators » 2019; Fall University of Florida Syllabus This course grounds you in numeracy so you can correctly interpret and communicate numbers as a media professional. This is not a math course. Rather, it enables you to become literate about data so that you avoid common mistakes made with numbers. The course has no pre-requisite other than sophomor... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools » 2019; Fall Knight Center for Journalism in the America Homepage / Syllabus This resource page features course content from the Knight Center for Journalism in the America's massive open online course (MOOC) titled "Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools." The six-week course took place from October 14 to November 24, 2019. We are now making the content free and ... Instructors: Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers
Data Journalism » 2019; Fall University of Florida Syllabus This course focuses on the numbers side of data journalism. You will learn how to find data to tell stories and how to find stories in data. No experience in spreadsheets or databases presumed. Pre-requisite: Journalism 3101 (reporting) or permission of instructor; course open to non-majors with an ... Instructors: Norman Lewis
Advanced Data Journalism » 2019; Fall City University of New York Homepage/Syllabus The objective of this course is to train students in the fundamental skills to do data journalism and be ready to continue their training in the Advanced Data Journalism course. Instructors: Lam Thuy Vo, Madeleine Varner
Advanced Coding Interactive Stories » 2019; Fall University of California, Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus This course teaches students code literacy. Beyond the specific skills they learn, students will have a more well rounded understanding of a crucial technologies that influence the news industry in innumerable ways. They become better decision makers when working with technologists, and will help to... Instructors: Jeremy Rue
The Data Institute 2019 » 2019 ProPublica Homepage / Syllabus An intensive workshop from The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica on how to use data, design and code for journalism. From July 22 to Aug 2 in New York City.
Information Expositions » 2019 University of Colorado, Boulder Homepage/Syllabus This course prepares students to manipulate and analyze data and to communicate their findings to a lay audience. Students will learn six fundamental data analysis techniques and will demonstrate their mastery of these techniques through self-directed data analyses. Students will also think critical... Instructors: Brian Keegan
Foundation Course in Data Journalism » 2019 Data-N Syllabus We believe learning by doing is the best way to gain new skills. That is why our course is highly interactive and hands-on. It is conducted through a series of engaging sessions including quiz game, design workshop, group discussion, step-by-step hands-on exercise on participants' own laptops using ... Instructors: Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
Drone Journalism » 2019 University of Florida Syllabus This class is a non-technical setting in which students from various disciplines within CJC may apply the “expert knowledge” of their individual emphasis areas, whether that be in communications, journalism or other fields. This experiential-learning course introduces students to the issues, applica... Instructors: Richard Shaw
Data Journalism on the MA in Data Journalism » 2019 Birmingham City University Homepage/Syllabus Data Journalism aims to facilitate a flexible and adaptable skillset, including the use of ‘computational thinking’ and communities of practice, that provides a basis for students to critically adapt to both new and existing data journalism techniques. Instructors: Paul Bradshaw
Research Methods » 2018; Summer University of Florida Syllabus This is an overview of the primary qualitative and quantitative methods in mass communication research. It is designed to help graduate students conduct research for a peer-reviewed journal, thesis, or dissertation. Instructors: Norman Lewis
Foundations » 2018; Summer Columbia University Homepage / Syllabus By the end of this course you’ll have the flexibility to find and execute solutions to most any coding- or data-related problem you run across. In theory we’re focusing on Python in general, the data package pandas, and comfort with the command line. Instructors: Jonathan Soma
Algorithms - Lede Program » 2018; Summer Columbia Journalism School Homepage/Syllabus A course on algorithms used in journalism, for beginning Python programmers. The major topics are text processing, visualization of high dimensional data, regression, machine learning, algorithmic bias and accountability, monte carlo simulation, and election prediction. Instructors: Jonathan Stray
Data Journalism, Spring 2018 » 2018; Spring University of California at Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus This course is for students who want to make finding and reporting stories from data part of their toolkit. It will be useful for anyone interested in investigative journalism, which nowadays is often heavily data-driven, or those keen to use data to provide context and ground-truth for regular beat... Instructors: Peter Aldhous, Amanda Hickman
Data Journalism » 2018; Spring The full name of the University Syllabus Proficiency with gathering, analyzing and visualizing data is essential in journalism today as commodity content becomes increasingly ineffective in both serving the public interest and engaging audiences. This two-unit introduction to data journalism builds upon the reporting skills you developed i... Instructors: Dana Chinn
Data Journalism » 2018; Spring University of Iowa Syllabus This class is built to train you on the skills to both analyze data and create data visualizations. The goal is to tell visual stories with — and about — data. However, to take the class you do not need to know (or like) anything about math, statistics or data analysis. When you’re done you’ll have ... Instructors: Daniel Lathrop
Data Journalism » 2018; Fall Birmingham City University Homepage/Syllabus Data Journalism aims to facilitate a flexible and adaptable skillset, including the use of ‘computational thinking’ and communities of practice, that provides a basis for students to critically adapt to both new and existing data journalism techniques. Instructors: Paul Bradshaw
Data Journalism » 2018; Fall Birmingham City University Homepage/Syllabus Within the context of media integration and convergence, Specialist journalism, investigations and coding aims to facilitate a flexible and adaptable skillset that provides a basis for students to critically adapt to any chosen field of reporting. It also provides a basis for the successful completi... Instructors: Paul Bradshaw
Data Immersion Boot Camp » 2018; Fall University of California, Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus Data boot camp is a one-week immersion into how to use data for research, reporting, and expressing stories to readers. Students will learn how to request data from government agencies; how to process and clean the data using software tools; how to interrogate data to find stories hidden in the numb...
Digital Frameworks » 2017; Spring Northwestern University (Washington D.C. campus) Homepage / Syllabus Digital data journalism: Finding, analyzing and presenting structured information on the internet as part of your journalistic work. Instructors: David Eads
Data Visualization (Journalism) » 2017; Spring Central Connecticut State University Homepage / Syllabus There are more charts, maps, and interactives on news sites than ever before. But data-driven news stories and graphics have been moving readers, impacting communities, and changing lives for hundreds of years. According to the undergraduate catalog, this course is Data Visualization, but it’s much ... Instructors: Andrew Ba Tran
Exploring Computation Journalism » 2017; Winter Stanford University Homepage/Syllabus This course will explore the evolving field of computational journalism. Students will research and discuss the state of the field, and do projects in areas such as understanding the media ecosystem, stimulating media creation and assessing media impact. Instructors: Maneesh Agrawala, Krishna Bharat, Dawn Garcia, Jay Hamilton
Python for Data Journalists: Analyzing Money in Politics » 2017; June 12 - July 9 Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Homepage/Syllabus You will learn just enough of the Python computer programming language to work with the pandas library, a popular open-source tool for analyzing data. The course will teach you how to use pandas to read, filter, join, group, aggregate and rank structured data. You will also learn how to record, remi... Instructors: Ben Welsh
Data Exploration and Storytelling: Finding Stories in Data with Exploratory Analysis and Visualization » 2017; January 16 - February 26 Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Homepage/Syllabus This is a free course open to anyone from anywhere in the world interested in data-journalism. Instructors Alberto Cairo and Heather Krause will teach how to extract journalistic stories from data using visualization, exploratory data analysis and other techniques. Instructors: Alberto Cairo, Heather Crause
Digital Frameworks » 2016; Summer Northwestern University (Washington D.C. campus) Homepage / Syllabus Online data journalism: Finding, analyzing and presenting structured information on the Internet as part of your journalistic work. Instructors: David Eads
Visualizing Data » 2016; Spring New School Homepage While the presentation of data has been part of news since its earliest days, it’s in the midst of a renaissance. Graphics desks that used to be thought of as “the art department,” outside the real work of a newsroom, are quickly becoming a central part of every newsroom’s daily journalism operation... Instructors: Lena Groeger
Telling Stories With Data » 2016; Spring University of Alabama Homepage / Syllabus What exactly is data and how does it fit into journalism? How can journalists work with data to find, report and visualize stories? That’s what we’ll explore in this course. (It doesn’t sound fun, but it will be.) We will learn to scrape, compile, clean and critique data and then communicate that da... Instructors: Chip Brantley
Policy and Investigative Reporting » 2016; Spring University of California at Santa Cruz Homepage/Syllabus This class focuses on in-depth and investigative reporting, where science and technology meets public policy and society. We will cover essential skills of investigative reporting, including obtaining documents through Public Records Act requests, using online reporting resources, computer-assisted ... Instructors: Peter Aldhous
Journalism Research » 2016; Spring Temple University Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Christopher Harper
Investigative Reporting Techniques » 2016; Spring Florida International University Syllabus This course provides training in investigative reporting, teaching students how to go beyond the day-to-day journalism. The course will emphasize problem solving in developing stories from conception to finished product. The course is practical and., at the same time, directs students to think deepl... Instructors: Mercedes Vigón
Intro to News Apps » 2016; Spring University of Missouri Homepage/Syllabus In this class you’ll learn basic skills and concepts behind interactive news applications. What does that mean? Good question! A “news application” can be a lot of things. It could be a slideshow, an interactive map, a chart or or even just a story layout with interactive elements. We’ll cover all o... Instructors: Chris Canipe
GeoData Journalism » 2016; Spring George Mason University Syllabus Today, the world is awash in unprecedented amounts of data and an expanding network of sources for news. Media organizations today must be able to put data to work quickly. This need was amply demonstrated during Hurricane Sandy, when public, open government data feeds became critical infrastructure... Instructors: Dieter Pfoser
Data Visualization » 2016; Spring University of Washington Syllabus The world is awash with increasing amounts of data, and we must keep afloat with our relatively constant perceptual and cognitive abilities. Visualization provides one means of combating information overload, as a well-designed visual encoding can supplant cognitive calculations with simpler percept... Instructors: Jeremy Heer
Data Visualization » 2016; Spring Emerson College Homepage / Syllabus This course introduces concepts, methods and practices of data visualization and data storytelling for journalism majors. Data journalism is an emerging field of practice that ranges from the dazzling interactive graphics of the New York Times to the consistent, watchful reporting of sites like Homi... Instructors: Catherine D'Ignazio
Data Storytelling Studio - Civic Data » 2016; Spring Massachusetts Institute of Technology Homepage / Syllabus We are swimming in data - "Big" and small, global and personal. And we are also facing complicated problems like Climate Change and inequality whose stories can only be told with data. The need for public understanding of data-driven issues is higher than ever before. But raw data doesn't make a goo... Instructors: Rahul Bhargava
Data Journalism in Enterprise Reporting » 2016; Spring Ohio State University Syllabus In this class, we will practice data journalism, a technique that is also called computer-assisted reporting. Also called precision journalism, this reporting strategy uses computers to analyze the ever-increasing amount of publicly available data to create unique and compelling stories. This course... Instructors: Spencer Hunt @spencerhuntosu
Data Journalism » 2016; Spring University of Florida Syllabus The day is coming when “data journalism” will be redundant. Once upon a time, reporters could rely mostly on interviews and anecdotes. But today’s digital-savvy audiences expect better evidence. They demand data to know whether the community is safe or what colors are in fashion. Thus, employers now... Instructors: Norman Lewis
Data Journalism » 2016; Spring New York University Syllabus In this introductory class, students will learn the skills needed to create visually exciting and thought-provoking online journalism. Topics include data journalism, data analysis, computer-assisted reporting, [painless] coding for journalists, and data visualization. The class is designed for an i... Instructors: Meredith Broussard
Data Journalism » 2016; Spring University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage / Syllabus Every day, more of our lives is being stored in a database somewhere. With that explosion of data, journalists now more than ever need the skills to analyze and understand data to then produce the stories hidden in the information. In this class, we’ll use brainpower and software to look at raw data... Instructors: Matt Waite
Data Journalism » 2016; Spring University of Texas at Arlington Syllabus We live in a world of data – from census and crime reports, budgets, election results and sports information, to social media updates on Facebook and Twitter. The rise of personal computing and the Internet along with the economics of digital publishing technology have opened a floodgate of raw data... Instructors: Dustin Harp
Data Driven Journalism » 2016; Spring University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Homepage/Syllabus The economics of digital publishing has opened a floodgate of raw data, and journalism is just one of many fields that are being rapidly transformed by this tsunami of data. In law, medicine, business, politics, and ecology, people are using data to understand the social and natural worlds. They are... Instructors: Ryan Thornburg
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2016; Spring University of Missouri Homepage / Syllabus This is largely a skills course with a heavy hands-on component. By successfully completing this course, you will be able to identify, obtain, evaluate, clean, analyze and visualize data. You will be expected to think like a journalist by evaluating data critically and applying what you learn to new... Instructors: David Herzog
Computer Assisted Reporting » 2016; Spring Texas Southern University Syllabus This is a course in the basic elements of computer--‐assisted reporting. You will learn how computer spreadsheet and database programs can be used to find details, leads and stories in collections of electronic records. With the proper training and inclination, journalists who are comfortable with t... Instructors: Ladonia Randle
Computational Journalism » 2016; Spring University of Maryland Homepage/Syllabus This course explores the conceptualization and application of computational and data-driven approaches to journalism practice. Students will examine how computational techniques are changing journalistic data gathering, curation, sensemaking, presentation, dissemination, and analytics of content. Me... Instructors: Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos
Code4SA Data Journalism School » 2016; Spring School of Data Syllabus The three-month-long training programme will consist of a combination of theoretical and hands-on practical work. Participants will spend much of their time each day working in a data newsroom.
Big Data Seminar » 2016; Spring Florida State University Syllabus This course unpacks the phenomenon of big data and how large data sets and sophisticated algorithms are changing society in general and mass communication in particular. The course also enables you acquire and evaluate a large data set for a research paper (although no experience in data or statisti... Instructors: Norman Lewis
Applied Fact Finding » 2016; Spring University of Florida Homepage Fact Finding is designed to give student journalists the skills to locate, interpret and analyze a broad variety of informational resources crucial to your success. Students will learn to retrieve data from Florida public records, federal public records, and other sources. Instructors: Spencer Mann
Advanced Web Apps » 2016; Spring University of Florida Syllabus This course adds server-side (back-end) skills to the client-side (front-end) skills you’ve already developed. This means you can save information generated from a Web page (you can require users to log in, for example), and you can run scripts on the server that will affect what the user sees, amon... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Reporting Methods » 2016; Winter Carleton University Homepage Obtain a thorough grounding in journalistic research methods. Acquire skills, such as data-journalism reporting techniques, needed to make sense of the information gathered and filing access-to-information requests. Develop the ability to shape the information into accurate and compelling stories. Instructors: David McKie, Jim Bronskill
Public Affairs Data Journalism II » 2016; Winter Stanford University Syllabus Instructors: Cheryl Phillips
Law, Order & Algorithms » 2016; Winter Stanford University Homepage/Syllabus Data and algorithms are rapidly transforming law enforcement and criminal justice, including how police officers are deployed, how discrimination is detected, and how sentencing, probation, and parole terms are set. Modern computational and statistical methods offer the promise of greater efficiency... Instructors: Sharad Goel, Maya Perelman, Ravi Shroff
Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere » 2016; Winter Stanford University Homepage Instructors: Dan Nguyen
Telling Stories With Data » 2016; Fall Arizona State University Syllabus Techniques and tools of reporting using data and public records as well as how to use the Internet and other online sources to find information and sources for stories. Students get experience with computer spreadsheets, database software and statistical techniques as they develop their advanced rep... Instructors: Evan Wyloge
Technologies de l'information appliquées au journalisme » 2016; Fall Université du Québec à Montréal Syllabus Computational journalism course, in French, for the news getters of the digital age. Dans ce cours, vous apprendrez : les principes fondamentaux de la programmation avec le langage Python; comment analyser d'imposantes bases de données en vous servant de MySQL; à faire des visualisations simples, gr... Instructors: Jean-Hugues Roy
Introduction to Data Visualization » 2016; Fall University of California at Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus This is a course in finding and telling visual stories from data. We will cover fundamental principles of data analysis and visual presentation, chart types and when to use them, and how to acquire, process and “interview” data. We will make interactive and static charts and maps using free software... Instructors: Peter Aldhous
Introduction to Data Journalism » 2016; Fall University of California at Berkeley Homepage/Syllabus Over four weeks, these classes will provide an introduction to data journalism. We will cover principles of data analysis, acquiring and cleaning data, basic spreadsheet skills, plus mapping and other forms of visualization. The emphasis will be on finding and telling stories from data. Instructors: Peter Aldhous
Intro to Web Apps » 2016; Fall University of Florida Homepage / Syllabus This is not a course where you “learn to make websites.” (Making websites is so 2005.) It is a course in which you will learn to code, and by “code” I mean write functional programs that run in a Web browser — not just make Web pages. It is an introductory course. It has no prerequisites. However, s... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Graduate Data Journalism » 2016; Fall Arizona State University Syllabus Uses data to tell stories, negotiates with government officials for public records and uses the Internet and other online sources to find information and sources for stories. Uses computer spreadsheets, database software, mapping programs and statistical techniques and explores how these tools can b... Instructors: Evan Wyloge
Data Journalism » 2016; Fall Homepage / Syllabus In this hands-on course, students will learn practical computer-assisted reporting and data visualization techniques and tools used by data reporters and interactive designers at leading news organizations. By the end of the semester students will comfortably: Instructors: Jillian Bauer
Data Journalism » 2016; Fall USC Annenberg Syllabus Proficiency with gathering, analyzing and visualizing data is essential in journalism toda as commodity content becomes increasingly ineffective in both serving the public interest and engaging audiences. Instructors: Dana Chinn
Building Systems for Reporting » 2016; Fall University of Maryland Homepage / Syllabus This course will teach students how to use data and technology to craft a systematic approach to beat reporting, or to build what you could call a reporter’s exoskeleton. Such a system would make it easier for a journalist to place news in context or spot interesting and potentially newsworthy event... Instructors: Derek Willis
Advanced Coding » 2016; Fall City University of New York Homepage/Syllabus This three-credit course will introduce students to effective, data-driven interactive storytelling. Students will learn how to effectively research and pitch stories; they will learn how to employ design and code to tell these stories; and they will learn how to produce, iterate and publish their p... Instructors: Lam Thuy Vo
Thinking Like a Data Journalist » 2016 Sudan Evidence Base Programme Homepage / Syllabus This course teaches you skills to find, analyze, and create narratives with data following an established process used by data journalists. It will also teach you how to critically evaluate public interest stories or reports that reference data. The materials developed for the Sudan Evidence Base Pr... Instructors: Eva Constantaras @evaconstantaras
Summer Data Institute » 2016; June ProPublica Homepage / Syllabus Over 10 days, we'll cover the basics of brainstorming, reporting, designing and building interactive graphics and data-driven news applications. By the end of the course you should be able to:
Intro to Data Journalism » 2016 New York University Homepage Instructors: Lena Groeger
Interactive Data Journalism » 2016 Source OpenNews Syllabus A tested framework for teaching, and a practical guide for learning. Data journalism draws on a remarkable array of skills—everything from statistics to graphic design to FOIA requests. It seems impossible to fit everything that aspiring data journalists might need into one semester. And it is. But ... Instructors: Russell Chun, Yolanda Ma, Jonathan Stray
Data and Multimedia Journalism » 2016 Birmingham City University Homepage/Syllabus The module explores the possibilities of data and multimedia for gathering news, producing and distributing it. This includes but is not limited to: Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR); data journalism; mapping and geotagging; mashups; audio and podcasts; audio slideshows; online video; interactivity ... Instructors: Paul Bradshaw
Computational Journalism » 2016 Georgia Tech Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Jacob Eisenstein
Big Data and Global Media » 2016 Yale University Syllabus In this reading group, we examine the legal challenges posed by big data in media production, distribution, and consumption. We are looking at relevant markets, government institutions, debates specific to the media under FCC jurisdiction, the challenges of law- and policy-making in a period of tech...
Data and Databases » 2015; Summer Columbia University Homepage/Syllabus Consideration of both the scientific and social implications of counting, of turning the world into bits. Through the process of gaining fluency in the use of Python, students will spend some time thinking through representations of core "data types" like time, location, text, image, sound and relat... Instructors: Allison Parrish, Matthew Jones
Data Journalism and Visualization » 2015; Summer Xiamen University Syllabus Instructors: Jeff South
Applied Fact Finding » 2015; Summer University of Florida Homepage This course is designed to teach students how to use a wide variety of public records, reference materials and Internet resources to gather information as a reporter. Students will also learn how to analyze, interpret, present and apply such data. This course combines lecture and discussion with han... Instructors: Rich Shumate
Visualizing Data in Journalism » 2015; Spring Western Kentucky University Homepage / Syllabus This is a introductory level course designed for students in all areas of journalism, where you will learn how to find, examine and visually display data in the forms of maps, charts, diagrams and illustrations for a sophisticated audience. You will also learn how to critically read examples of thes... Instructors: Josh Meltzer @joshmeltzer
Visualization » 2015; Spring Harvard University Homepage / Syllabus The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this course is to expose you to visual representation methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data. Good visualiza... Instructors: Alexander Lex
Scraping for Journalists » 2015; Spring City University of New York Homepage / Syllabus This is a skills class. I will be teaching you why web scraping is one of the most important tools available to journalists, but in only five weeks, I will primarily be teaching you the technical skill of how to scrape data from a website. Know that as a journalist, this is not enough. The real key ... Instructors: Sisi Wei
Journalism Research » 2015 Spring Temple University Syllabus This is an introductory course that focuses on research methods and techniques used in journalism and reporting. Quality writing and thorough research are two fundamentals of good journalism. This research-intensive course is geared toward identifying, understanding and applying your abilities to se... Instructors: Michael Panzer
Digital Journalism: Sensor Journalism in San Diego » 2015; Spring San Diego State University Homepage / Syllabus The course is designed to promote learning through working in interdisciplinary teams (journalism and geology) along with a nonprofit news organization, inewsource to examine air quality in San Diego using electronic, cutting-edge sensors. Students will work together to create a series of digital ne... Instructors: Schmitz Weiss, Kevin Robinson
Data Visualization » 2015; Spring University of Texas at Austin Syllabus As the era of Open Government and Open Data evolves, more stories are being told through data and data visualization than ever before. In this course, you’ll learn how to acquire compelling data sets, clean them, analyze the contents using visualization techniques to find storylines, and then presen... Instructors: Christian McDonald
Data Skills » 2015; Spring City University of New York Homepage/Syllabus This semester we will work together to gather, analyze and visualize numbers you need to understand your audience and to tell interactive data-driven stories. Instructors: Amanda Hickman
Data Journalism » 2015; Spring New York University Homepage This course teaches some of the skills and techniques necessary for obtaining, analyzing and communicating structured information effectively. Students will scrutinize techniques used in previously published projects and will also analyze data on their own, primarily using Excel, HTML, CSS and Javas... Instructors: Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy
Data Journalism » 2015; Spring Temple University Syllabus Instructors: Meredith Broussard
Computer Assisted Reporting » 2015; Spring Point Loma Nazarene University Syllabus Introduces students to investigative journalism through hands-on laboratory work, including advanced Web research, public records requests, statistical analysis, databases, mapping, visual aids and data interactives. Instructors: Danielle Cervantes Stephens @sddatadiva
Computational Journalism » 2015; Spring Stanford University Homepage Instructors: Dan Nguyen
Advanced Online Media Production » 2015; Spring University of Florida Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Advanced Interactive Data Visualization » 2015; Spring University of Missouri Homepage/Syllabus We’ll be exploring tools and principles that help us visualize data and tell stories online. There are a lot of ways to skin the proverbial cat, but we’re going to focus on basic JavaScript programming, everyday data formatting and visualization techniques that leverage the D3.js library. At the end... Instructors: Chris Canipe, Mike Jenner
Advanced Data Journalism » 2015; Spring University of Missouri Homepage Instructors: Chase Davis
Public Affairs Data Journalism II » 2015; Winter Stanford University Syllabus Instructors: Cheryl Phillips
Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere » 2015; Winter Stanford University Homepage Instructors: Dan Nguyen
Advanced Data Journalism » 2015; Winter University of California at Berkeley Homepage The course will introduce reporters to the practice of data journalism in a busy newsroom, showcasing the importance of telling a story and how tools can help you do it. Instructors: Simon Rogers
Web Development for Media » 2015; Fall Syllabus Merely using the web and digital tools is no longer enough for today's media professionals. Journalists and communicators need to have a practical understanding of how websites and applications work. This class does not aim to make you a professional coder or require any previous web development exp... Instructors: Jeremy Bowers
Web Coding for Interactive Design » 2015; Fall The New School Homepage / Syllabus Interactives and news apps are changing the way we process media, and the expectations for media producers in newsrooms globally. Data journalism departments and newsrooms like Vox, the NYTimes, ProPublica, and 538 build narrative and newsworthy tools around code; and the participatory nature of the... Instructors: Aurelia Moser
Storytelling with Data Visualization » 2015; Fall University of Maryland Homepage/Syllabus This course covers the use of data visualization as a method to communicate news stories (narrative visualization) and as a way to explore and analyze data as a method to find new news stories (visual analytics) in a journalism context. Students will learn to apply core principles of visualization r... Instructors: Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos
Storytelling with Data + Interactivity » 2015; Fall City University of New York Homepage This three-credit course introduces students to conceptualizing and producing content across multiple platforms--from Web sites to tablets and mobile devices-- by exploring essential concepts, tools and interactive story forms. This course explores how the news industry is adapting to new technologi... Instructors: Lam Thuy Vo
Public Affairs Data Journalism I » 2015; Fall Stanford University Homepage Instructors: Dan Nguyen
News Gathering and Investigation » 2015; Fall University of Texas at El Paso Syllabus To master basic investigative tools and techniques, as well as how to apply them to everyday reporting and major enterprise stories. We will explore how to take advantage of two main sources of information – documents and people – and discuss when and how to use data to both enhance a story or provi... Instructors: Kate Gannon @kategannon
Intro to Web Apps » 2015; Fall University of Florida Syllabus This course has two broad goals: 1. Enable journalism students to find out if they like and/or have an aptitude for creating Web apps and coding/programming. 2. Provide journalism students with sufficient understanding of how Web apps are created and how coding problems are solved so that they, as j... Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Design & Presentation » 2015; Fall City University of New York Homepage This course will cover the fundamentals of good presentation, layout, and design for print and the web. We ll cover basic typography, color theory, page layout, information design as well as navigation and usability. We ll explore a variety of online tools, get comfortable with Adobe Photoshop and I... Instructors: Lena Groeger
Data-Driven Reporting » 2015; Fall University of Texas at Austin Syllabus This course will cover the basics of computer­assisted reporting, using electronic records for the basis of news reporting. Students will learn how to request data from public and governmental sources, to clean up and analyze that data using tools such as Excel and SQL, and use simple statistical mo... Instructors: Christian McDonald
Data Journalism: The Basics » 2015; Fall Kardi Has University Syllabus The data journalism course will present fundamentals of open /data collecting, gathering, cleaning, analysis, visualisation process and understanding FOIA. Data skills are getting more important to affect data driven works for media industry. In the developing Internet world; to understand and figur... Instructors: Pınar Dağ @pinardag
Data Journalism » 2015; Fall National University of Ireland Galway Homepage/Syllabus This course is part of MA in Journalism at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and will introduce journalistm students to the practise of data journalism and showcase a set of tools and technicques for data driven analysis, investigation and storytelling. Instructors: Bahareh Heravi @Bahareh360
Data Journalism » 2015; Fall Central Connecticut State University Homepage/Syllabus This course is about Data Journalism. Data and Journalism. Observations and stories. This class will be both technical and philosophical. Students will learn to apply the process of a data scientist to journalism. Data is just another source for reporters to research, interview, and glean answers fr... Instructors: Andrew Ba Tran
Data Analysis for Journalists » 2015; Fall Indiana University Syllabus J502 is concerned with the collection, analysis and interpretation of data in the pursuit of news. As such, this is not just a skills course. Certainly, you will get an overview of lots of digital tools to find stories in data. But more importantly, this course emphasizes how to think about, context... Instructors: Gerry Lanosga @gerrylanosga
Data 1 » 2015; Fall Columbia University Homepage/Syllabus In this seven-week introduction to data journalism, you'll be exposed to the history of the craft of numerate reporting. You'll develop and finetune your bullshit detector for bad data reporting and writing. You'll be introduced to modern data practices, including software for examining spreadsheets... Instructors: Tom Meagher
Computer Assisted Reporting » 2015; Fall Carleton University Homepage To teach students how to find information on the Internet and government hard drives using advanced search techniques and tools such as Excel, MySQL, Google Fusion Tables and ArcGIS Online to make sense of the information and render it more accessible readers, viewers and listeners through multi-med... Instructors: David McKie
Computational Social Science » 2015; Fall Stanford University Homepage/Syllabus With a vast amount of information now collected on our online and offline actions — from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we interact with — we have an unprecedented opportunity to study complex social systems. This opportunity, however, comes with scientific, engineering, and ethical challen... Instructors: Sharad Goel
Computational Journalism » 2015; Fall Columbia University Homepage / Syllabus The course is a hands-on introduction to the areas of computer science that have a direct relevance to journalism, and the broader project of producing an informed and engaged public. We will touch on many different technical and social topics: information recommendation systems but also filter bubb... Instructors: Jonathan Stray
Advanced Data Journalism » 2015; Fall University of Missouri Homepage Instructors: Chase Davis
Math for Journalists Made Easy: Understanding and Using Numbers and Statistics » 2015; June Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Homepage This course aims to provide journalists, media practitioners and the general public with knowledge about how to be critical about numbers, statistics and research and to avoid being improperly swayed by biased researchers. Instructors: Brant Houston, Jennifer LaFleur, Greg Ferenstein
Data Visualization and Infographics with D3.js » 2015; March 16 - April 26 Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Homepage This course consists of an in-depth discussion about the principles of infographics and data visualization, and how they apply to the real world. Students will learn how to display information using charts, maps, diagrams, and visual narratives, and how to bring them to life using d3.js, a Javascrip... Instructors: Alberto Cairo, Scott Murray
Data Driven Journalism » 2015; Maymester University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Syllabus Instructors: Ryan Thornburg
Advanced Coding for Journalists » 2015 University of California at Berkeley Homepage This course is a continuation of the Coding For Journalists class, and will include intermediary lessons in computational literacy. This class containes more applied lessons than its earlier counterpart. There are some lectures depending on the story subject matter that arises. Instructors: Jeremy Rue
The Platform » 2014; Summer Columbia University Homepage This course begins with the idea that computing tools are the products of human ingenuity and effort. They are never neutral and carry with them the biases of their designers and their design process. Platform studies is a new term used to describe investigations into these relationships between com... Instructors: Cathy O Neil @mathbabedotorg
Foundations of Computing » 2014; Summer Columbia University Homepage/Syllabus "An introduction to the ways in which the computer and data technologies can be partners in creative practices. We will emphasize writing code over point-and-click interfaces, presenting the computer as a programmable object. Through a series of projects, students will move from exploratory sessions... Instructors: Jonathan Soma
Dealing with Data » 2014; Summer New York University Homepage / Syllabus The volume of data being generated every day continues to grow exponentially. We capture and store data about pretty much every aspect of our lives. Being able to handle and analyze the available data is now a fundamental skill for everyone. The objective of this course is to challenge and teach stu... Instructors: Panos Ipeirotis
Data and Databases » 2014; Summer Columbia University Homepage/Syllabus This course considers both the scientific and social implications of counting, turning the world into bits. Students will learn human protocols (census and survey, interview, crowdsourcing, and experiments) and computer- or computer-assisted strategies and tools for collecting data. These distinctio... Instructors: Allison Parrish, Matthew Jones
Algorithms » 2014; Summer Columbia University Homepage/Syllabus Algorithms are at the heart of computer processing - they are descriptions of computation. We will present a basic taxonomy of algorithms based on their purpose and discuss complexity (will an algorithm take a lot of time or require significant system resources?). Classes will be anchored around sev... Instructors: Jonathan Soma, Chris Wiggins
Visualization » 2014; Spring Harvard University Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Hanspeter Pfister
Stabile Seminar: The empirical spine of investigative reporting » 2014; Spring Columbia University Homepage This is a class in computer-assisted reporting, a branch of the data journalism movement. In previous incarnations of the class, Maurice Tamman of Reuters dubbed it the “empirical spine” of journalism in the tradition of Philip Meyer’s Precision Journalism. Whatever the name, the idea is the same: o... Instructors: Sarah Cohen
News Applications » 2014; Spring University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage How we communicate is changing rapidly and fundamentally. Because the delivery of journalism has been largely unchanged for lengthy periods of time – newspapers for hundreds of years, television and radio for less – there’s been little experimentation with the fundamental delivery of news and inform... Instructors: Matt Waite
Interactive Design » 2014; Spring Columbia University Homepage In this course, students will learn how to design and build news Web sites from the ground up. The course will be a mix of concept and practical application of digital news design, including user research. Students will learn to develop prototypes, iterate design concepts and code the HTML, CSS and ... Instructors: Tyson Evans @tysone, Josh Keller @josh_keller
Data Journalism » 2014; Spring New York University Homepage Instructors: Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy
Data Journalism » 2014; Spring Virginia Commonwealth University Syllabus
Data Journalism » 2014; Spring Northeast Normal University Homepage / Syllabus In our Data Journalism and Visualization course, you will learn how to use the Internet and other digital technology to find ideas, information and sources for your stories. In particular, you will learn how to obtain and analyze data – about health, crime, education, economics and other topics. You... Instructors: Jeff South
Computation + Journalism » 2014; Spring Georgia Tech Homepage / Syllabus A study of computational and technological advancements in journalism with emphasis on technologies for developing new tools and their potential impact on news and information. Instructors: Irfan Essa
Computation + Journalism » 2014; Spring Georgia Tech Homepage / Syllabus A study of computational and technological advancements in journalism with emphasis on technologies for developing new tools and their potential impact on news and information. Technology is rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported, visualized, aggregated, summarized, distributed... Instructors: Irfan Essa
Advanced Data Journalism » 2014; Spring University of Missouri Homepage Instructors: Chase Davis
Reporting Methods » 2014; Winter Carleton University Homepage Instructors: David McKie, Jim Bronskill
Digital Scholarship Methods » 2014; Winter University of Oregon Syllabus This course will help graduate students engage with digital tools and approaches, primarily as they pertain to the analysis of texts. While there are no pre-requisites for this course, students need to be willing to try new things, practice new skills, and not be afraid to fail. Instructors: John Russell
Digital Journalism » 2014; Winter Stanford University Homepage In “legacy” media, newspaper and magazine journalists had no need to learn how to operate the printing presses, or to understand strategies the marketing and circulation departments used to promote and distribute their work. Their interactions with readers were one-sided at best, antisocial at worst... Instructors: R.B. Brenner, Drake Martinet
West Virginia Election Reporting » 2014; Fall West Virginia University Homepage Instructors: Derek Willis
Web Programming for Multimedia Journalism » 2014; Fall Kent State University Syllabus Students in this class are journalists, programmers, web developers or designers, or they consider themselves some combination of the above. They are taking this class because they want to create something new and meaningful on the web. This course is designed as a capstone for students in the Schoo... Instructors: Jacqueline Marino, James Raber
Storytelling with Data + Interactivity » 2014; Fall City University of New York Homepage The Data/Interactivity 10-week portion of this course introduces students to the essential concepts, tools, and story forms in multimedia storytelling. Students learn the basics of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, leverage existing frameworks and libraries (Bootstrap, jQuery), and pitch, report, produce, and cr... Instructors: Sisi Wei
Story Bots » 2014; Fall University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage Welcome to the dawning days of storybots: programs that write stories so humans don t have to. Bots now write simple stories about softball games, corporate earnings reports, the weather and, yes, earthquakes. Some of them are extraordinarily simple -- basic programming knowledge is all that s requi... Instructors: Matt Waite
Public Affairs Data Journalism I » 2014; Fall Stanford University Homepage Instructors: Dan Nguyen
Digital History: Concepts, Methods, Problems » 2014; Fall Stanford University Syllabus This is a hands-on course that introduces students to the use of digital tools and sources to conduct original historical research, analyze and interpret findings, and communicate results. Digital history is an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to bring digital technology into conversation with ... Instructors: Jason A. Heppler
Data Journalism » 2014; Fall New York University Homepage Instructors: Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy
Data Journalism » 2014; Fall University of Florida Syllabus Students will develop a “data frame of mind” by demonstrating proficiency in: - Finding stories in data and finding data to report stories. - Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of data sources and methods. - Acquiring data through public sources and by scraping websites and PDFs. - Cleaning (fi... Instructors: Norman Lewis
Craft of Research » 2014; Fall City University of New York Homepage Instructors: Liz Day
Computational Journalism » 2014; Fall New York University Syllabus Instructors: Jonathan Stray
Math for Beginning Reporters » 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage This module is designed to solve a particular problem: How do you get basic data journalism into a beginning reporting class that many feel is packed as it is? My answer is to combine the basic math for reporters with instructions on how to apply those concepts in a spreadsheet using real data, all ... Instructors: Matt Waite
Intro to Multimedia Web Skills » 2014 University of California at Berkeley Homepage This five-week mini-course is a follow-up to the Intro to Multimedia Reporting Bootcamp workshop, and is required for all first-year journalism graduate students in the Fall. The objective of the class is to teach every student the foundational skills needed to create an online website, such as a pe... Instructors: Jeremy Rue
Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools » 2014; May 6 - June 6 European Journalism Centre Homepage A free online data journalism course with 5 leading experts. Instructors: Simon Rogers, Paul Bradshaw, Stephen Doig, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Albert Cairo
Data Journalism » 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage / Syllabus The best reporters harness the right tools to get the story. In this class, we’ll use brainpower and software to look at raw data -- not summarized and already reported information -- to do investigative reporting. We’re going to get our hands dirty with spreadsheets, databases, maps, some basic sta... Instructors: Matt Waite
Data Journalism » 2014 University of Tennessee Homepage / Syllabus This senior-level course will introduce students to all phases of data journalism, including: finding and evaluating data sources, organizing data, reporting with numbers, and visualizing data. During the course we will discuss computer programming, data analysis, statistics, graphic design and othe... Instructors: Nick Geidner
Research, Analysis and Insight » 2013; Spring University of Southern California Syllabus A major component of the public relations practitioner’s work is to find and utilize facts, figures and opinions in a thoughtful and productive manner. Successful practitioners can observe and examine an array of information ranging from consumer perceptions to voting trends and spending habits and,... Instructors: Dave Quast
Data-driven Interactive Journalism » 2013; Spring City University of New York Syllabus Instructors: Russell Chun, Amanda Hickman
Data Reporting » 2013; Spring Georgetown University Homepage / Syllabus The world that we live in and report on is increasingly influenced by data. This course will help you use data to find and develop stories that can’t be found in other ways. Data can be anything: spreadsheets full of numbers, the text of speeches or the measured observations of daily life. Reporters... Instructors: Derek Willis
Data Driven Journalism » 2013; Spring University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Homepage The economics of digital publishing technology have opened a floodgate of raw data, and journalism is just one of many fields that are being rapidly transformed by that floodgate. In law, medicine, business, politics, and ecology, people are using data to understand the social and natural worlds. Th... Instructors: Ryan Thornburg
Computation + Journalism » 2013; Spring Georgia Tech Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Irfan Essa
Advanced Data Journalism » 2013; Spring University of Missouri Homepage Instructors: Chase Davis
Making Sense of Data » 2013; Winter Google Homepage Do you work with surveys, demographic information, evaluation data, test scores or observation data? What questions are you looking to answer, and what story are you trying to tell with your data? This self-paced, online course is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about how to structure, v... Instructors: Amit Deutsch, Joe Hellerstein
Small Data Journalism » 2013; Fall New York University SCPS Homepage / Syllabus This course aims to examine data journalism at its core, through case studies and hands-on practice of modern data skills. Because the course is only five weeks, we focus on the practical concepts and tools needed to explore unfamiliar datasets to find worthwhile stories. Instructors: Dan Nguyen
Programming R (Proposed) » 2013; Fall Syllabus My first stab at a basic R programming curriculum. I think teaching just these topics without overall motivating examples would be extremely boring, but if you're a self-taught R user, this might be useful to help spot your gaps. Instructors: Hadley Wickham
Patricia Elliott » 2013; Fall University of Regina Syllabus The course is designed to give students practical and theoretical experience in journalistic research methods, including interviewing, observation, data collection, archival research and retrieval of public documents. Major projects will be centred around a university-community collaboration with th...
Journalists Toolkit » 2013; Fall University of Florida Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Mindy McAdams
Introduction to Data Science » 2013; Fall Columbia University Homepage This course serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary and emerging field of data science. Students will learn to combine tools and techniques from statistics, computer science, data visualization and the social sciences to solve problems using data. Central threads include: (1) the data sci... Instructors: Rachel Schutt, Kayur Patel
Data-driven Interactive Journalism » 2013; Fall City University of New York Homepage We swim in a world of data – from election results, budgets and census reports, to Facebook updates and image uploads. Journalists need to know how to find stories in data and shape them in compelling ways. This hands-on course teaches reporters and editors to gather, analyze, and visualize interact... Instructors: Russell Chun, Amanda Hickman
Data Visualization » 2013; Fall University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage Welcome to data visualization, where you ll learn to use storytelling, analysis and visualization techniques to inform people with data. In this class, you ll learn what makes for good visualizations and how you can develop deeper understanding of a topic through a combination of words and graphics,... Instructors: Matt Waite
Data Visualization » 2013; Fall University of California at Berkeley Homepage This course teaches some of the skills and techniques necessary for displaying statistical information effectively in journalism. Students will scrutinize techniques used in previously published projects and will also analyze data on their own, evaluating and producing static and interactive visuali... Instructors: Shan Carter, Kevin Quealy
Data Science Storytelling » 2013; Fall New York University Homepage This short course is an exploration of the line between data analysis and storytelling. How do we find the interesting stories in data, and how do we communicate them in a compelling way, with respect to the data? Instructors: Hilary Mason
Coding for Journalists » 2013; Fall University of California at Berkeley Homepage This course is an introduction to programming concepts as they relate to the journalism industry. The goal of this course is to equip students with a foundational technical literacy to construct interactive online stories such as data visualizations, infographics, maps, multimedia packages, games or... Instructors: Jeremy Rue
Applied Fact Finding » 2013; Fall University of Florida Syllabus Fact Finding is designed to give student journalists the skills to locate, interpret and analyze a broad variety of informational resources crucial to your success as a working journalist, including standard reference materials, public records, and Internet resources. You will learn and practice inv... Instructors: Cory L. Armstrong
Analytics and Data Visualization for Journalism » 2013; Fall New York University SCPS Homepage / Syllabus Data-based journalism is increasingly important at all levels of news organizations. This course will introduce you to fundamental concepts and skills for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing data. It’s also a hands-on class; you’ll apply the techniques you learn each week to a semester-long data-r... Instructors: Jeremy Singer-Vine
Computational Journalism » 2013; January-February University of Hong Kong Homepage / Syllabus This course, given at the University of Hong Kong during January-February 2013, is an advanced look at how techniques from visualization, natural language processing, social network analysis, statistics, and cryptography apply to four different areas of journalism: finding stories through data minin... Instructors: Jonathan Stray
Database Reporting » 2012; Spring University of Minnesota Syllabus This is a skills-based, capstone course designed to enhance reporting skills, primarily by identifying and analyzing electronic data to look for patterns and trends that can lead to in-depth news stories. Students will obtain and analyze digital data for computer-assisted reporting that can be publi... Instructors: MaryJo Webster
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2012; Spring University of Memphis Homepage Advanced use of computer technology and investigative techniques to access, analyze and develop database information in combination with traditional news reporting. Instructors: Joe Hayden
Computation + Journalism » 2012; Spring Georgia Tech Homepage/Syllabus This class is aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in the area of journalism. Primary focus is on the study of technologies for developing new tools for (a) sense-making from diverse news information sources, (b) the impact of more and cheaper networked sensors (c)... Instructors: Irfan Essa
Applied Fact Finding » 2012; Spring University of Florida Syllabus Fact Finding is designed to give student journalists the skills to locate, interpret and analyze a wide range of informational resources crucial to your success as a working journalist, including standard reference materials, public records, and internet resources. You will learn and practice invest... Instructors: Dennis Owen Frohlich
Introduction to Data Science » 2012; Fall Columbia University Homepage / Syllabus Instructors: Rachel Schutt
Introduction to Data Analysis » 2012; Fall Rice University Homepage / Syllabus This course will teach you to be a data analyst. You will learn how to take a large dataset break up into manageable pieces and use a range of qualitative and quantitative tools to summarise it and learn what it has to tell. You will learn the importance of scepticism and curiosity, and how to commu... Instructors: Hadley Wickham
Information Visualization » 2012; Fall University of Maryland Homepage / Syllabus What is information visualization? How is it related to scientific visualization? How does it combine with data mining? Information visualization is emerging as an important fusion of graphics, scientific visualization, database, and human-computer interaction. Dozens of innovative visualizations fo... Instructors: Ben Shneiderman
Data-driven Reporting (the Texas Tribune Course) » 2012; Fall University of Texas at Austin Syllabus In this course you’ll learn about and skills needed for Computer Assisted Reporting (also known as CAR) with a focus on data-driven reporting, a valuable skillset in journalism, easily exportable to other professions. You will learn to: develop a journalistic theory or line of questioning that could... Instructors: Pete Slover
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2012; Fall University of Maryland Homepage This is a course in the basic elements of computer-assisted reporting. You will learn how computer spreadsheet and database programs can be used to find details, leads and stories in collections of electronic records. With the proper training and inclination, journalists who are comfortable with the... Instructors: Dan Keating, Ira Chinoy
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2012; Fall Eastern Illinois University Syllabus Instructors: Joe Gisondi
Intro to Digital Humanities » 2012 University of California Los Angeles Homepage Based on the Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH101) course at UCLA, taught by Johanna Drucker (with David Kim) in 2011 and 2012, this online coursebook (and related collection of resources) is meant to provide introductory materials to digital approaches relevant to a wide range of disciplines. ... Instructors: Johanna Drucker
How to Process, Analyze and Visualize Data » 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Homepage Data science! Big data! Statistics! Infographics! Buzzword! Instructors: Adam Marcus, Eugene Wu
Frontiers of Computational Journalism » 2012 Columbia University Syllabus The aim of the course is to familiarise students with current areas of research and development within computer science that have a direct relevance to the field of journalism, so that they are capable of participating in the design of future public information systems. The course is built around a ... Instructors: Jonathan Stray
Digital Frameworks for Reporting » 2011; Summer University of Northwestern Homepage / Syllabus The objective of this course is to familiarize students with digital tools that will become the frameworks with which they can approach storytelling, emphasizing the use of structured data and the visualization of data to aid in the understanding of complex information. The course establishes a deep... Instructors: Derek Willis
Data Visualization » 2011; Spring Rice University Homepage / Syllabus This course will give you the tools to create and critically evaluate data visualisations. We will focus on statistical graphics, graphics that display statistical data (observations are in rows and variables in columns), with some forays into the field of information visualisation. Instructors: Hadley Wickham
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2011; Spring Eastern Illinois University Syllabus To give students the fundamentals of computer-assisted reporting, using public documents in order to gather, organize, evaluate data to write objective reports in accepted journalistic style across several media platforms. Instructors: Joe Gisondi
Database & Computer Assisted Reporting » 2011; Winter Florida International University Homepage / Syllabus The dual emphasis of the course is to have students acquire the basic skills and practical knowledge of how to access information in order to support their reporting practices, as well as, a basic understanding of data managers and spreadsheet software and their fundamental relationship to present d... Instructors: Carlos Suris
Investigative Reporting » 2011; Fall University of Missouri Homepage In this course you will learn the approach, mindset, tools and skills used by investigative reporters. You will learn a fundamental approach to journalism that takes you beyond the day-to-day, event focused reporting practiced in many newsrooms and will learn how to add context and meaning to all of... Instructors: Mark Horvit
Computer Assisted Reporting » 2011; Fall Michigan State University Homepage / Syllabus This course will help to strengthen your reporting skills, teach you how to find, negotiate for and acquire public records data, how to query and analyze data, how to use online resources beyond Google to identify and retrieve information and how to produce a package. Students will use spreadsheet, ... Instructors: Jane Briggs-Bunting
Investigative Reporting Techniques » 2010; Spring University of California at Los Angeles, Extension Syllabus Instructors: Fred Mamoun, Mary Harris
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2010; Spring Georgetown University Homepage Students will learn the basics of doing computer-assisted reporting in today’s complex and dynamic media world. We’ll work on developing marketable data- driven storytelling skills for news, enterprise and investigative coverage. Lectures will be tailored to the current state of the art in data repo... Instructors: Robert Benincasa @RobertBenincasa
Computation + Journalism » 2010; Spring Georgia Tech Homepage/Syllabus Instructors: Irfan Essa
Quantitative Journalism: Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research » 2010; Fall Augsburg College Syllabus This is a reporting class. Computers will assist you to get you where you need to go, which will be off campus, in the community, our community, reporting the news. Instructors: Steve Aggergaard
News & Numbers: Lies, Statistics, and the Stories Media Tell » 2009; Spring Miami (Ohio) University Syllabus JRN-STA 380 explores the quality of how quantitative ideas and material are represented in daily journalism—where, in fact, most of us get our common-sense ideas about the numbers and data present in our everyday lives. The topics for the course are ripped from current events and headlines—especiall... Instructors: A. John Bailer, Richard Campbell
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2009; Spring American University Syllabus The computer gives journalists access to a whole new range and realm of sources. A reporter in Des Moines who needs to gather data on food production in China can do so easily by using a variety of electronic research tools. The San Jose journalist trying to understand her city's budget no longer is... Instructors: Wendell Cochran
Quantitative Journalism: Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research » 2009; Fall Augsburg College Syllabus Practicing journalists and those aspiring to enter communications professions are becoming aware that requirements for entry are growing. With the ongoing information explosions, the liberally educated professional communicator must function as a filter, an organizer and interpreter of quantitative ... Instructors: Cass Dalglish, Boyd Koehler
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2008; Summer Ramkhamhaeng University Syllabus This course introduces practically to the data research and data analysis skills that students and professional journalists need to write better stories. The course focuses on research on the Internet in search engines, specialised search engines, e‐book libraries, and online databases. Students gai... Instructors: Ulrich Werner
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2008; Spring George Washington University Homepage / Syllabus The aim of this class is to teach students how to identify, obtain, analyze and incorporate data into their stories. In practical terms, this means learning to use spreadsheets, databases and the Internet to further reporting. Along the way we’ll also cover new ways to retrieve and process informati... Instructors: Derek Willis
Advanced Reporting » 2008; Spring University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Syllabus This course is about processing. You will learn how to deal with the abundance of information in publicly available databases, or in databases that you construct yourself. You will learn how to manage, analyze, and reduce data to make its meaning and importance clear to your audience, using the tool... Instructors: Philip Meyer
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2007; Spring Kent State University Syllabus We will do three basic things: go after information, analyze it, and write/produce stories about it. You’ll improve your web searching capability. You’ll learn how to use a spreadsheet (Excel) and a database (Access). Instructors: Karl Idsvoog
Database & Public Records Reporting » 2006; Summer Florida International University Syllabus We will learn research and analytical methods and how to make sure what you get is true, we’ll review elementary school arithmetic, we’ll learn about powerful software and techniques. More than anything else, we will learn a new way of thinking. Instructors: Neil Reisner
Power Journalism » 2006; Spring University of Oregon Syllabus Power Journalism is a specialized reporting course on high-tech investigative techniques used by today's best journalists to uncover new sources of information, analyze data, and give stories greater depth and context. Using Census, FBI and other government data, you will learn how to apply Excel, a... Instructors: Scott R. Maier
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2006; Spring Columbia College Chicago Homepage Course introduces students to technology-based news reporting techniques, ranging from library database research to computer-assisted reporting applications, such as Internet search engines and analytical software. Assignments emphasize acquisition and evaluation of quality information and knowledge... Instructors: Barbara K. Iverson
Online Journalism » 2006; Winter Drexel University Homepage / Syllabus We will explore how to use the computer and the internet to add depth and context to news stories. Keep in mind, however, that these are just tools – they supplement, but do not replace, in-depth, aggressive reporting. We will conduct database analyses, and access a wide variety of records from gove... Instructors: Ron Bishop
Precision Journalism » 2006; Fall University of South Carolina Homepage This class used to be called “computer-assisted reporting,” a name that sounds as silly as “telephone- assisted” or “typewriter-assisted” reporting. But just as reporters a century ago discovered they couldn’t live without those newfangled phones and typewriters, today’s reporters cannot live withou... Instructors: Chris Roberts
Computer-Assisted Journalism » 2003; Fall Oklahoma State University Homepage This course introduces you to the techniques of computer-assisted reporting. Building upon your basic reporting and critical thinking skills, the course will show you how to use the computer as a tool in news gathering and data analysis. You will learn how to find and critically evaluate information... Instructors: Stan Ketterer
Journalism Research » 2002; Winter Western Michigan University Homepage / Syllabus This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the sources, practices, technique and principles of journalism and other information research. The course introduces students to the techniques of computer-assisted reporting. The course will show students how to use primary, sec... Instructors: Sue Ellen Christian
Advanced Journalism Research » 2001; Spring Boston University Syllabus Doing journalism — high-quality journalism — involves five phases that I call the RRAW-P process : Research, Reporting, Analysis, Writing and Publishing (or Production). This is a four-unit course designed to develop and reinforce your skills in the first three of these, especially as they pertain t... Instructors: J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism (Proposal) » 2001 Syllabus Creating, initially, a master’s degree program for mid-career media and communications professionals or individuals trained in other fields but desirous of academic or professional careers in communications. This program will focus on methods, data and analytic techniques largely unknown to traditio... Instructors: J.T. Johnson, Steven S. Ross
Computer-Assisted Reporting » 2001 University of Missouri Syllabus “Computer-assisted reporting” refers to the analysis of public records that are stored electronically instead of on paper. This course teaches how to examine computerized records by using a spreadsheet and database manager. Instructors: Jeff Porter, Jennifer LaFleur
Information Gathering » 2000; Spring University of Oregon Homepage / Syllabus This course introduces you to the theory and methods of information gathering and gives you the opportunity to apply what you're learning to an important public policy question. Instructors: Jim Upshaw
Advanced Reporting » 2000; Winter DePaul University Syllabus The course is designed to go beyond the inverted pyramid of basic newswriting and focus on some of the sophisticated newsgathering techniques used by journalists. As is true with any story, Advanced Reporting begins with an idea. Story generation techniques will be examined in the class. Interviewin... Instructors: Edmund Lawler
Advanced Journalism Research » 2000; Fall Boston University Syllabus Instructors: J. T. Johnson
Precision Journalism » 1999; Fall University of Colorado Homepage Good research is the basis for good journalism. Journalists must understand what information they need for stories and be able to find and evaluate it efficiently -- and on deadline. This class will help you develop a research strategy, learn to use the essential tools of computer-assisted reporting... Instructors: Burt Hubbard, Len Ackland
Research Methods for Journalists » 1998; Spring Northwestern University Syllabus This course is about evaluating and executing social science research. Journalism professionals increasingly need to analyze, interpret and use research methods employed in the social sciences. Knowledge of these methods is increasingly important for informing audiences about the findings of researc... Instructors: Peter Miller, Warren Cohen
Computer Assisted Reporting » 1997; Spring New York University Syllabus Public records have been the mainstay of good beat and investigative reporting for years. But times are changing. No longer are records stored in dusty file drawers or shelves, but rather on the optical disks, hard drives and tapes of mainframe and desk top computers. Soon, paper records may well di... Instructors: Drew Sullivan
Geek Like Me (Course proposal) » 1997 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Homepage / Syllabus In that independent study, for one credit hour, I was to create a Computer-Assisted Reporting class. The proposal I had to write said I would create a syllabus, recommend texts and create class materials. In the proposal, I wrote that “every reporter should know how to feed a city budget into a spre... Instructors: Matt Waite
Sherp 31 Data Journalism New York University Homepage This course teaches some of the skills and techniques necessary for using statistical information effectively in science journalism. Obtaining, interpreting, visualizing and displaying data are essential skills for journalists in the 21st Century, especially those who cover scientific and technical ... Instructors: Kevin Quealy
Managing Data Journalism Projects Learno.net Homepage Bringing a data journalism project to a good end is not an easy task. There are a lot of variables and processes at play that need to be managed and accounted for before the project can be produced and in the end published. Instructors: Jacopo Ottaviani
From numeracy to visualization and beyond Journalist's Resource Syllabus The skills required to be a successful data journalist are many, ranging from numeracy and spreadsheet fluency to being able to create visualizations and interpret and perform statistical analyses. In most moderate to large newsrooms, some data tasks are divided among desks and departments, with rep...
Data Journalism at SHERP New York University Homepage This course teaches some of the skills and techniques necessary for using statistical information effectively in science journalism. Obtaining, interpreting, visualizing and displaying data are essential skills for journalists in the 21st Century, especially those who cover scientific and technical ... Instructors: Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy
Data Journalism Handbook Open Data in Europe and Central Asia Homepage/Syllabus A 200-hour undergrad data journalism concentration curriculum for universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Instructors: Eva Constantaras
Computers and the Open Society Stanford University Syllabus Instructors: Terry Winograd
Coding and Data Skills for Communicators Texas State University Homepage / Syllabus In this course, you’ll be introduced to programming and data concepts relevant to communicators. Data visualization and storytelling tools and techniques are covered as related to journalism, advertising, public relations and the technology industry. Instructors: Cindy Royal
Advanced Online Media Design Texas State University Syllabus In Advanced Online Media, we will continue exploring Web design topics, moving more heavily into the area of development, including data visualization and programming. The course will focus on application of these topics in the communication discipline. The goal is to spend several weeks going over ... Instructors: Jacie Yang
Advanced Data Journalism University of Missouri Homepage/Syllabus The goal of this class is to teach you how to creatively solve problems in journalism using computer programming. In it, you will learn how to use the Python language, statistics and advanced spreadsheet and database concepts, then apply those skills to real-world exercises. At the end of the semest... Instructors: Chase Davis, Mike Jenner