Data Institute 2024 for Journalists in the U.S.

This informs the public about the Data Institute 2024 for Journalists in the U.S.. Details about the Program are given below. The Data Institute is a free, hands-on workshop that will teach you how to work with data as a journalist, how to apply design principles and layout to charts or stories, and how to code your own interactive project.

Data Institute 2024 for Journalists in the U.S.

In addition to training sessions on data journalism, design and programming that are taught by experienced journalists, participants will also meet and talk to leading journalists about their careers.

Program Details

Co-founded in 2015 by two women and journalists of colour, Sisi Wei and Lena Groeger, the Data Institute seeks to address an equity gap and make high-quality training more accessible for all journalists who want to tell powerful stories.

The Data Institute equips journalists from a broad array of social, ethnic and economic backgrounds with the technical skills to create and lead data journalism, including but not limited to people of colour, women and nonbinary people, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.

Benefits

Over two weeks, we’ll cover the basics of using data, design and code for journalism. By the end of the course, you should be able to:

Data Journalism

  • Conduct data research and evaluate the reliability of your data.
  • Clean data and analyze data sets for interesting trends and outliers.
  • Bulletproof data against common pitfalls and inconsistencies.
  • Perform the most commonly used statistical techniques in journalism.

Design

  • Sketch and prototype multiple designs for a single project and evaluate the best approach.
  • Learn how to use colour, typography and layout.
  • Create clear and clean visualizations to help readers understand complex information.

Programming

  • Understand basic programming concepts.
  • Create your own website from scratch using HTML/CSS and Javascript.
  • Understand how you might use AI in different ways to help your work as a journalist.
  • Know how to continue learning on your own.

The workshop will be hands-on, and participants will work through exercises throughout the workshop.

Eligibility

If you’re a journalist passionate about learning how to use data, design and code to help tell stories, this workshop is for you. You don’t need to have any previous experience, but we want to see that you’ve demonstrated curiosity about telling stories with data.

The Data Institute’s home is the Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University, and we’re especially excited to welcome applicants from HBCUs—alumni, professors, and current students. In addition, we strongly encourage applications from members of tribal nations, Hispanic-serving institutions, the Asian and Pacific Islander communities, and other groups historically left out of opportunities such as these.

If you’ve ever felt intimidated by learning to code and doing math, don’t count yourself out because we’ve all been there. Most of the teachers you’ll have at the Data Institute majored in the humanities, such as journalism, English, history or philosophy.

All workshop students will need to use their own laptops, which must be able to install software like R Studio. This means that Chromebooks and iPads won’t work. We’ll provide other materials, including links to where you can get the software we’ll be using for free.

How to Apply

For those interested in the Data Institute 2024 for Journalists in the U.S., Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 25 April 2024.

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