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Data Journalism Courses – Spring 2021

Having sold out all previous versions of our new Online Data Journalism courses, we were eager to make some new dates available as soon as possible to meet the demand.

The course is just brilliantly designed. Everything is useful.

Finding Stories with Data Feedback, 2020

The process of translating our training from in-person to a remote online format posed a lot of questions – primarily how to do this without losing the hands-on and practical nature of the courses that makes them so effective. Judging by their popularity and the feedback they are receiving, our team and the expert trainers in our network have found the right answers to these questions.

Worked very well online. Plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

Story-based Inquiry Feedback, 2020

 

So for the springtime of this new and hopefully brighter year ahead, we’re not only making more dates for ‘Finding Stories with Data’ available, but we’re now also launching online versions of our more advanced data journalism training courses: ‘Data-Driven Investigations’ and ‘Investigating Data with R’.

In their in-person classroom incarnations, these were some of our most popular courses ever and we hope the work we’ve been doing over the winter break to get them up and running online will prove time well spent. Both courses have been translated, trialled, refined and trialled again and we’re now very happy to open bookings for them.

To celebrate having ‘Data-Driven Investigations’ back on our timetable, we’re also offering the option of combining both levels of the data journalism courses, with our ‘Deep Dive into Data Journalism’: a package of both courses with a structured progression to build on your learning, and a 10% discount on the overall booking fee.

The full range of options are below, with links to more details and booking forms.

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive
(4 modules of 1.5hrs each – four consecutive days)

OPTION A –> SOLD OUT

Mon 22 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Tue 23 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 24 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Thu 25 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

OPTION B

Mon 29 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Tue 30 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 31 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Thu 1 April 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

 

Data-Driven Investigation – Online, Intensive
(5 modules of 2hrs each – five consecutive days)

OPTION 1 –> SOLD OUT

Mon 8 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Tue 9 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Wed 10 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Thu 11 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Fri 12 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)

OPTION 2 –> SOLD OUT

Mon 12 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Tue 13 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Wed 14 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Thu 15 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Fri 16 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)

 

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – 2-course package (10% discount):
Finding Stories with Data + Data-Driven Investigations

OPTION A + OPTION 1 –> SOLD OUT

OPTION A + OPTION 2 –> SOLD OUT

OPTION B + OPTION 2 –> SOLD OUT

 

Investigating Data with R – Online
(3 modules of 1.5hrs each – three alternative days)

Mon 15 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 17 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Fri 19 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

 

22–25 February 2021

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.

8–12 March 2021

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

This course will give participants an opportunity to take their core data skills to the next level and combine them with advanced internet research for rich, in-depth investigations.

15–19 March 2021

Investigating Data with R

So you’ve got the fundamentals of data journalism down. You’re interrogating spreadsheets like a pro and able to use pivot tables like the data Swiss-army-knives they are. But sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it.

29 March – 1 April 2021

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.

12–16 April 2021

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

This course will give participants an opportunity to take their core data skills to the next level and combine them with advanced internet research for rich, in-depth investigations.

22 February – 12 March 2021

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (22-25 February 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (8-12 March 2021).

22 February – 16 April 2021

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (22-25 February 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (12-16 April 2021).

29 March – 16 April 2021

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 29 March - 1 April 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 12-16 April 2021).