CJN-322 Data Journalism
Data is everywhere. From social media platforms like TikTok or Twitter to election results, Covid-19 numbers, or census data; data has become a valuable resource for journalists. Today, journalists will not only use data and data visualizations to tell their stories more convincingly but also to discover new stories. Students will learn how to access data, how to collect and clean data, how to analyze data, and then how to visualize it convincingly. As data is never neutral, students will learn to think about data from a critical perspective that centers ethical guidelines and acknowledges the harm that data can cause. This class will equip students with the skills to identify and tell stories with data and data visualizations and prepare them for the modern newsroom.