Data Journalism: Spreadsheets, R, Python. What should I learn?
At this session you can learn what each data journalism course will teach you and which one you should select. A data journalism beauty contest.
- Spreadsheets – Hands-On. Beginners.
- R – Hands-On. Beginners and Intermediates.
- Python/Pandas – Hands-On. More advanced, but no previous Python/Pandas experience required.
Data journalism has been at the core of our teaching and training programme for decades. More details to follow. See who will be teaching this year below.
Anna Leach
Anna Leach is a Visual Projects editor at the Guardian, where she creates visual and interactive stories ranging from the ownership of England's water companies to an analysis of what folklore can tell us about conspiracy theories.
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.
Jonathan Stoneman
Jonathan Stoneman is a freelance trainer specialising in data journalism. He has been working with data since 2010. Before that he worked at the BBC – as a reporter, producer, editor of output in Macedonian and Croatian, and finally as head of training at BBC World Service.
Matilda Davies
Matilda Davies has worked at The Times and The Sunday Times as a data journalist since 2021, specialising in data-led investigations. She has won several awards for her investigations, tech reporting and environmental journalism.
Pamela Duncan
Pamela Duncan is the editor of the Guardian’s Data Project team, an occasional award-winning journalist (#humblebrag) and a self-confessed data nerd. She can usually be found at her desk poring over spreadsheets and using her coding skills - usually a combination of scraping, regex and pandas/Python - to build and analyse datasets to produce high quality and exclusive data stories.
- 26 June 2025 10.20
Location: TBC