Jan 26 Class

HOMEWORK Reading and Questions: Identify two things in these articles below you found interesting or important to your work as a journalist or a researcher. Post your comments in a blog item by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Jan 25. Reading a Data Dictionary How to Avoid 10...

Jan 24

Review Homework Assignment UrbanPop 3. Sorting –Which urban agglomeration was the largest in 1950? New York: 12.3 million Which is expected to be the largest in 2030? Tokyo: 37 million 4. Percentage Change Create column What is difference. —copy forumula What is...

Thursday, Jan 19

Review: WordPress posting Basics and Sorting in Excel Citybudget.xls Review four corners: 1. Make a copy 2. Freeze Panes 3. Four corners test 4. Check the math Excel and the Black cross copy function 5. Sorting     >—< New: Freeze Panes...

Tuesday, Jan 17

1) Introductions 2) Syllabus –Questions        –Software: Excel and Tableau          –Course Materials:           NICAR CoursePack          Numbers in the Newsroom          New Precision Journalism          Data Journalism Handbook 3) Tour of class...