Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools

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Free Online Course: Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools provided by Independent is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Independent.

Overview
  • 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 available to students who took the course and anyone else who's interested in interested in data journalism and visualization.

    The course, which was powered by Google News Initiative, was taught by Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers, and a great team of instructors. They created and curated the content for the course, which includes video classes, readings, exercises, and more.

Syllabus
  • Module 1: Finding and getting data

    Module 2: Preparing data

    Module 3: Finding stories in data

    Module 4: Machine learning in data journalism

    Module 5: Visualizing data

    Module 6: Data-driven storytelling