Study Data J in the UK

Hello, hacks and hackers! Are you a working journalist who's interested in honing your data skills? Paul Bradshaw, one of the founders of H/H Birmingham, created a Master's curriculum that you can take on part-time:

Happening this week:

• Brisbane is reflecting on elections
• Zurich is hacking big data
• London is hearing about fact checking, machine learning and more
• Dar es Salaam is scraping and cleaning data
• Abuja and Lagos are learning advanced spreadsheet techniques

Worth a read:

• A nonprofit global policy think tank analyzed American broadcast, print and online journalism over the past few decades and found that cable news has become increasingly more subjective and personal than it used to be (NiemanLab)
• The Pudding, a site that specializes in data viz, wrote some blog posts about working with and designing data (The Pudding)
• A data scientist analyzed text from the *Game of Throne*s books to measure lexical diversity, analyze word frequency in relation to the plot and calculate character importance using network theory (Medium)

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