Data are everywhere - if you know where to look. This course will show you who is publishing data, and how to find it. Using publicly available data to tell stories is becoming more and more important for journalists today. Learning how to source and verify data is essential to finding important stories. But before you begin telling a story, how do you go about finding open data in the first place?

Open data research for journalists

Jonathan Stoneman

Introduction to course

Who publishes open data?

What can data do for me? Interview with Megan Lucero

How open is open data?

Open data quiz

What is open data?

Main sources of data

Quiz: Sources for data

Official sources of data

Government and other sources

Searching for data: Using advanced search techniques

What if it's a PDF?

Exercise: Find the table

Scraping data

Interview with data journalist Leila Haddou

Quiz: Handling datasets and scraping

Trusted sources

Privacy and the law

Quiz: Handling data and privacy

Data privacy and the law

Making progress with data

Conclusion

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