Do you write the same story each week? Is it based off a data source (think weather alerts, unemployment data, real estate listings)? Then it might be a good story to template and automate. Learn how in this training by Jessica Davis and Kim Bui.
You’re tracking impact, now what? Anjanette Delgado of Detroit Free Press leads an exercise in system mapping. Adam Neal of TCPalm. and John Deidrich of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel share examples of successful investigations from 2022 and examine what led to change.
There are multiple resources journalists can prepare ahead of a natural disaster. Data + Journalism author and trainer Mike Reilley of University of Illinois-Chicago walks USA TODAY Network journalists through tools you may not have considered using.
Cincinnati’s News of NOW team walks through the process and tools they use in this session on trending stories.
What to know about Generative AI and Automation featuring Senior Director Jessica Davis @jessicadavis of USA TODAY Network.
Writing with numbers isn’t easy. The best data-driven stories don’t read like data stories. They focus on the humans, those impacted by the data and the issues.
Learn ways to use PowerPoint to promote and drive more interest in your stories. PowerPoint can help you do that with memes, video and more.
Learn from Microsoft master trainer Bill Monroe how an effective PowerPoint helps tell your story. This is the fourth session in a five-part series on PowerPoint.
Improve your deck with video, audio, data and animations with instruction from Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe. This is the third in our series on learning PowerPoint.
Tips with videos of CPR dos and don’ts from the American Heart Association with rich data and insights on women’s cardiovascular health *not a certification class.
Learn about Google Earth Studio, Google Earth Pro, Google Earth Timelapse and Earth Measure Tool with training by author and data journalism expert Mike Reilley.
Learn how to create a slide deck from a template and add basic content, speaker notes and launch your slideshow with Microsoft master trainer Bill Monroe.
Learn how to read a Form 990 and where/how to go about obtaining these documents to track how money flows through non-profit organizations. We’ll also look at other tools for researching charities and also government agencies that investigate them.
Adding data to Excel is how you start building a spreadsheet. In this session, we’ll explore how Excel helps you add data in a flash. We’ll explore new data types that pull information from the internet and help you spot the important stuff at a glance: Conditional Formatting; Auto Fill; Flash Fill; Geography and Stock Data Types; Leveraging Tables for Expanding Data Sets
Keyboard shortcuts in Excel: Here’s the link.