Helena Bengtsson
Helena Bengtsson is the data journalism editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 13 local titles. She previously worked as the data journalism editor at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster, for 27 years and has also served as Editor, Data Projects of the Guardian UK between 2014-2017. In 2006 and 2007, she was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. She was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset (The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism) twice, in 2010 and in 2016 for innovator of the year.
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Data Journalism Courses – Hands-On
We will be offering a selection of hands-on data journalism courses for all levels including: - Spreadsheets - R - Python - Mapping - Scraping without Code Taught by some of the best data trainers in the UK and internationally, all current or former data journalists and editors with years of experience between them.
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Keeping It Local: Inspiring Regional Reporters to Use Data Journalism Tools for Their Stories
Helena Bengtsson is Data Editor at Gota Media, Swedish publisher of 13 local titles. In this session she explains how to educate, train and work directly with local reporters to produce both title-specific data stories and projects which can be shared across other titles.
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Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]
Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners (part I) and intermediates (parts II and III).
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Data Journalism: SQL. An Introduction. Hands-on. [B+I]
Hands-on. Intermediate. Take the next step after interviewing spreadsheets, and learn how to handle large datasets with SQL. SQL allows us to expand the scope of our data-driven work, to safely share data with others, and most importantly, to combine tables together through joining.
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Data Journalism: Getting the Most out of Data Classes
We will be teaching a range of data journalism skills at the #CIJSummer Conference 2023. This session will give a brief description of the skills taught and is designed to help you identify the best sessions to attend, given your own experience level and your objectives for incorporating data-driven research into your work.
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Data Journalism – Google Sheets – Hands-On
This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners.
Summer Conference Event
— Talk
Keeping it local: Inspiring Regional Reporters to Use Data Journalism Tools for Their Stories
Helena Bengtsson is Data Editor at Gota Media, Swedish publisher of 13 local titles. In this session she explains how to educate, train and work directly with local reporters to produce both title-specific data stories and projects which can be shared across the other titles.
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Covid-19: A Data Story. UK and Sweden.
Leading data journalists Helena Bengtsson of STV (Sweden), John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times (UK), and Pamela Duncan of the Guardian (UK), explain how data analysis plays a crucial part in the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Why Code?
A talk for those who are unsure on how knowledge of code can help journalists in their investigations. Leila Haddou talks to a developer, Max Harlow; a code newbie data journalist, Niamh McIntyre; and a code old-hand data journalist and editor, Helena Bengtsson.
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Data Journalism in the Newsroom
This panel of experienced data journalists will explain how data can give greater depth to your stories and discuss best-practice for integrating data analysis into newsroom workflows. If you’re new to data journalism and want to find out what the techniques can do for you, or if you work with data journalists and want a greater understanding of their role to inform your expectations then this talk is for you.
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Excel
Excel 1: The Power of Data Analysis for Stories Data is everywhere and spreadsheets can help reporters to find story ideas in the data. This course introduces data analysis using Microsoft Excel. Participants will learn basic calculations, rates, ratios and analytic tools that generate story ideas.
