Thursday Sept 22

Important Event next Tuesday and Extra Credit Opportunity: https://wordpressua.uark.edu/datareporting/ethics-summit-2-p-m-tuesday-sept-29/ Continue with Tableau https://public.tableau.com/s/ -Video http://www.tableau.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/getting-started...

Tuesday Sept. 20

Review Quiz. Histograms http://quarknet.fnal.gov/toolkits/ati/histograms.html Discreet vs Continuous Data statistics-in-newsroom Introduction and Demonstration of Tableau https://public.tableau.com/s/ –Create account –Download to machine –Launch app....

Thursday Sept. 15

Quiz Due 5 pm Monday, Sept. 19 Important formatting note: —Put your last name and date on the spreadsheet, ie “Wells Quiz 9-19” —Upload the sheet as a blog post and click the category “Student Work” –Clearly label your work with dates and a...

Tuesday, Sept. 13

Dow Jones News Fund summer internships. Guest speaker Jesse Holland, Associated Press reporter. –Politics of the race and lending ACORN, Center for Community Change, GOP study committee, American Bankers Assn. Passed in 1975 – why then...

Thursday, Sept. 8

Review blog post Calculate a rejection rate: HMDA Trielli’s “Reading a Data Dictionary.” Apply this method to the HMDA data. Chapter 2 of Data Journalism Handbook Continue Work With HMDA Data: Welcome to The Diversity Style Guide...

Tuesday Sept. 6

1) Review Quiz 2) Review HMDA data guide –Know your data, its scope, currency and omissions. 3) Rates and Ratios 4) Continue Work With Data from HMDA website Cohen, Numbers in the Newsroom. Rates and Ratios. –Calculate a rate: NICAR Coursepack...