Helena Bengtsson
Helena Bengtsson is Data Journalism Editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 13 local titles. She previously worked as Editor for Data Journalism at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster for 27 years and she 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) in Sweden twice, in 2010 and in 2016 for innovator of the year.
Summer Conference Event
— Class Course Training
Data Journalism: Spreadsheets. 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). If you are a beginner, we recommend that you take the whole course.
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SQL: an Introduction. Hands-on. Intermediate.
Take the next step after dealing with spreadsheets, and learn how to handle large datasets with SQL. Using SQL makes it possible to handle large amounts of data, to safely share data with others, and most important, to combine tables together by joining.
Summer Conference Event
— Class Course Demo
Data Journalism Hands-On
We will be teaching a range of data journalism skills at the #CIJSummer Conference 2023. The skills include: - Spreadsheets - R programming language - Web Basics - Web Archives - Scraping - Visual data - Oil tracking data And much more!
Summer Conference Event
— Course
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.
Summer Conference Event
— Talk
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.
Summer Conference Event
— Workshop
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.
Summer Conference Event
— Discussion
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.
Summer Conference Event
— Course
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.
