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Journalism · Intermediate

Data journalism: from spreadsheet to story

Six modules on finding, cleaning, checking and writing up numbers, taught through real council budgets and court records.

Dr Amara Okonjo 4.82,316 ratings 18,402 students Updated September 2026
Level
Intermediate
Pace
4–6 weeks
Format
Video and exercises
Captions
English, Spanish
$129$189Save $60

Autumn term price, the same for everyone until 31 October. After that it returns to $189.

  • 5 h of video, 31 lessons
  • 9 exercises with real datasets
  • Certificate of completion
  • Lifetime access, 30-day refund

What you'll learn

  • Turn a vague tip into a question a dataset can answer
  • Find and request public data, and know when to stop
  • Tidy messy columns without changing what they mean
  • Use rates, medians and per-capita figures correctly
  • Draw a chart that makes one point and survives an edit
  • Write the numbers into a story a reader will finish

Curriculum

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Questions

Data journalism: from spreadsheet to storyDr Amara Okonjo · 4.8 rating

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