JRN-418

Data Journalism at CCSU, Fall 2015

Extracting data from docs, mapping

Links for class

Readings for Oct. 7

Read: Distrust Your Data

Read: When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps

Read: Connecting with the Dots

Homework 1

Answer these questions about the readings.

Questions about the Class 5 reading assignments

Homework 2

Homework 3

Critique a piece of data journalism Find a story that purports to use data, read it, and answer the following questions:

Write the answers to these questions in Markdown format and post it to your Github repo.

Here are some stories if you don't want to find any on your own:

To download before next week's class