How-To
I created this (blog?) for myself so I can keep on top of Excel. I am going to add to it throughout the year when I learn new functions. Excel might not look like the friendliest of Microsoft programmes but it is important for every journalist to understand. I think
Data
The General Election is the most important media event of the year. Its a chance to earn your stripes as a journalist and get some page leads in your portfolio. This was the thought I had last week when I was on work experience with the Times' Redbox supplement.
Data
Billy Ehrenberg, ex-Interhacktive and data journalist, has spent the last year working on new data-based projects with City A.M.'s expanding online team. I caught up with him to ask what his role involves, and what he sees as the future of data journalism. In his
Data
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. At least that’s how the saying goes and how the wider public feel, for some reason people tend to distrust something with numbers backing it more than if it doesn’t. Well that’s just completely wrong, but the problem is that numbers can
Data
Following on from my post on beginner’s tips for Excel taken from our workshop with James Ball (of Guardian Datablog fame), I’d like to highlight the possibly most valuable tool within Excel, which if you can master, you’d be well on your way to becoming an actual
Data
So, you want to be a data journalist? All well and good, but it’s important to remember to learn to crawl before you can walk, and luckily we had the Guardian’s James Ball to guide us every baby-step of the way in the form of the essential