Aspiring data journalists can participate in this online course.
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering the course “Python for data journalists: analyzing money in politics” from June 12 to July 9, through its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
Participants will learn computer programming and data journalism techniques to produce their own data analyses and investigations.
Instructor Ben Welsh, editor of the Los Angeles Times Data Desk and co-founder of the California Civic Data Coalition, will introduce students to his tool kit, which includes Python, pandas and Jupyter Notebook.
The class is open to anyone interested in learning new data journalism tools such as Python scripting to conduct data analysis. Knowledge of computer programming is not required.
Registration is free and ongoing.
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