Learn newsroom leadership skills with Columbia professors
Hi, hacks and hackers! Columbia University’s J-school partnered with the Google News Initiative Newsroom Leadership Program to create a free, year-long, part-time training program for newsroom leaders in the Asia-Pacific Region.
The deadline to apply for the program is June 26 and you can find more info about it here.
Happening this week:
- Johannesburg is visualizing election data
- New Orleans is having its first Civic Studio Project Day
Worth a read:
- This tutorial shows how to use ipywidgets to add interactive dropdowns, sliders and more to Jupyter notebooks to create dynamic, user-facing dashboards for data collection and visualization (Medium)
- Even if you haven’t touched Excel in years because you’re used to R or Python, it’s nice to remember your roots. Brant Houston wrote up a guide on eight Excel tools that do the math so you can focus on the story (GIJN)
- Looking for datasets to test your machine learning program on? OpenData Science compiled a list of 25 free, clean machine learning open datasets to get you started. (ODSC)
Upcoming events:
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| China | Oriental Press Group | Java Analyst Programmer |
| China | Oriental Press Group | Mobile App Developer (Android/iOS) |
| China | South China Morning Post | Web Developer (Full-Stack) |
| US | ABC | Data Journalism Fellowship |
| US | Chicago Public Media | Senior Editor, Digital News |
| US | NPR | Senior Digital Analyst |
| US | Pew Research Center | User Experience Specialist |
| US | Texas Tribune | Engagement Producer |
Other opportunities:
