We have a number of upcoming online training opportunities in 2024.
We’re running three week-long masterclasses in investigative data journalism, which are designed to equip journalists with the skills and confidence to find stories in datasets.
The week-long courses take place over Zoom from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.
- April 29th to May 3rd
- September 23rd to 27th
- November 4th to 8th
Sessions include:
- How to sort, filter and pivot in Google Sheets
- Freedom of Information
- Cleaning data to eliminate mistakes
- How to make great visualizations
- How to interpret financial data
- How to make maps from geospatial data
In addition, we’re also offering a two-day introduction to using spreadsheets, which will take place online from July 17th to 18th.
We’re also running our summer coding course for journalists.
The introduction to the programming language R will take place at the 主播大秀’s Mailbox offices in Birmingham from July 24th to 25th.
Later in the year, we’re also planning to offer a two-day advanced masterclass in data journalism, which will include sessions on interrogating APIs, scraping datasets and analysing financial data.
We’ll send out communications for how to apply for the courses nearer the dates. Or please do drop the Shared Data Unit editorial lead a line on peter.sherlock@bbc.co.uk to express your interest.