1/25

  • Introduction to the practice of data journalism
  • Paper and pencil data collection on NYTimes
  • What is newsworthy?

1/30

  • Wrapping up NYTimes data collection
  • Discussing Chapter 1 of Numbers in the Newsroom
  • Starting Wikipedia entry

2/1

  • No class

2/6

  • Zoom meeting
  • Discuss the experience of writing a Wikipedia article
  • Discussing Chapter 2 (beginning) of Numbers in the Newsroom
  • Journalistic style/elements
  • Beginning to interview a dataset (natural amenities score)

2/8

2/13

2/15

  • FOIA the dead
  • Science writing

2/20

2/22

2/27

  • More on data visualization
  • What makes something data journalism?

3/1

  • Pulling data from PDFs using Tabula
  • Research tips from the library

3/6

  • Standard stories
  • Standardizing data and writing a data dictionary

3/8

  • Standard stories
  • Story ideas
  • git and GitHub: fork, clone

Spring break

3/20

  • Visit to the Smith Archives
  • Presentation of the SDS major, Ford 240

3/22

  • OpenRefine
  • More git and GitHub: fetching upstream
  • Working with survey data

3/27

  • Final story idea brainstorming
  • Intro to R

3/29

  • Survey data
  • More R

4/3

  • Taking a step back
  • What is journalism?
  • What is data journalism?

4/5

  • Sentence workshopping
  • Mapping in R

4/10

  • More mapping
  • Algorithms

4/12

  • Algorithms

4/17

  • Timelines

4/19

  • Rachel Schutt visiting class
  • Extra credit opportunity Rachel Schutt’s talk, A Humanistic Approach to Data Science. 5 pm in Stoddard G2.

4/24

  • Interactivity

4/26

  • Interactivity

5/1

  • Final workshop?

5/3

  • Present final work