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Jonathan Stoneman

Jonathan Stoneman is a freelance trainer. He previously worked for the BBC World Service for many years, as a reporter, producer, later as editor and finally as Head of World Service Training at Bush House. He went freelance in 2010, discovered data in 2011 and has devoted himself to learning and sharing as much as possible since then.

Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 20-21, 23-24 May 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 10-14 June 2024).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 11-12, 14-15 March 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 18-22 March 2024).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 22-23, 25-26 January 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 29-31 January, 1-2 February 2024).
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Data for the Educator

These days data and journalism seem to be mentioned in the same breath all the time. You may have decided, or had it decided for you, that your institution’s courses for journalists should include data.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 11-12, 14-15 September 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 2-6 October 2023).
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 13-14, 16-17 November 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 27 November-1 December 2023).
Summer Conference Event
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Data Journalism: Scraping 1-2. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. Scraping 1 You may have heard of scraping, you may even have done a little yourself. These two sessions set out to demystify the process of getting data from websites where there is no download or export button, and copying and pasting is getting you nowhere.
Summer Conference Event
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Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. 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. Maybe your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle.
Summer Conference Event
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Understanding Company Accounts: Getting the Most out of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House. Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site.
Summer Conference Event
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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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 10-11, 13-14 July 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 July 2023).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 15-16, 18-19 May 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 22-26 May 2023).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 13, 15, 16, 17 March 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 27-31 March 2023).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 6, 8, 9, 10 Feburary 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 20-24 February 2023).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 9, 11, 12, 13 January 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 23-27 January 2023).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Data Journalism Training for Climate Reporting

A specialised course designed for Journalists whose story pitches were selected for support following two trainings held by the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project.
OCRI Event

Uganda Train the Trainer on Environmental Data Journalism

A specialised course designed for Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) trainers who will train journalists in Uganda, in partnership with the African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ). Class duration: 3hrs x 3 days Level of participation: very high.
OCRI Event

Train the Trainer on Environmental Data Journalism

A specialised course designed for Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) trainers who will train journalists in Senegal, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire, working with mainstream media (television, radio, print and online press) in partnership with Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 14, 16, 17 & 18 November 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 28-30 November, 1-2 December 2022).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 10, 12, 13 & 14 October 2022 ) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 October 2022).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 5, 6, 8 & 9 September 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 26-30 September 2022).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.
Summer Conference Event
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Finding Stories with Data – Hands-On

You may already know something about data journalism, but are unsure how to start an actual story. In these sessions we will delve into some real data, looking for a real story, starting with an idea, downloading the data, cleaning it, exploring it, and finding the leads to stories in it –using the methods you would need in a data-led enquiry, and in the order you would use them.
Summer Conference Event
 — Course Training

Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R. Hands-On. I

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 25, 26, 28 and 29 April 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 9-13 May 2022).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

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.
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 24-25, 27-28 January 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 31 January - 4 February 2022).
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 28 February - 01 March, 03-04 March 2022 ) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 07-11 March 2022).
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 06-09 December 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 13-17 December 2021).
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 25-28 October 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 01-05 November 2021).
Scheduled Training

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 26-29 July 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 09-13 August 2021).
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

#CIJSummer: 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. This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.
Summer Conference Event
 — Course Training

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. This course is part of our annual #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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).
Scheduled Training

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).
Scheduled Training

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).
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online

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

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.
Scheduled Training

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.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you. Group size: max 12 people. Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks Level of participation: very high.
Scheduled Training

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (Excel)

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive (Google Sheets)

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

Finding Stories with Data – Online

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.
Summer Conference Event
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Finding Stories with Data – Google Sheets

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

Finding Stories with Data – Excel

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

Data Escape Room

The Data Escape Room is a 60 minute data-driven challenge designed to test and develop your data skills with additional 60 minutes allowed for questions and individual help. Working in a small team you will be given a selection of real data and tasked with working out what the story is.
Summer Conference Event
 — Workshop

Don’t Be Numbed by Numbers

What do you do when faced with a really big dataset for the first time? Using examples, Jonathan Stoneman will discuss approaches that help reduce a daunting mountain of data to a manageable mass. Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.
Summer Conference Event
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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.
Summer Conference Event
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Dealing with Large Datasets

What do you do when faced with a really big dataset for the first time? Using examples, Jonathan Stoneman will discuss approaches that help reduce a daunting mountain of data to a manageable mass.