A five-step data journalism introduction

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Northwestern University's Knight Lab offers an online course in data journalism, "a syllabus of sorts to make sense of the endless articles, tutorials, videos, tools and other resources for learning the digital skills a new journalist needs to succeed." It starts with philosophical underpinnings and proceeds through Internet basics, web design fundamentals, using version control, setting up a personal web site, and getting started with web programming using jQuery.

January 22, 2014

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