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Everything you need for data-driven storytelling

What our training offers

Our training is structured for the needs of African journalists and storytellers who want to learn how to work with datasets. From finding data, through analysis, to visualisation, our experts will guide you from start to finish.

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Features of our training

Featured lesson

An introduction to Solutions Journalism
In this lesson, you will be introduced to solutions reporting, explaining what it is and isn't and how it can elevate your journalism and engage your audience.

8

minutes

courses

How to do solutions journalism

This course is an introduction to solutions journalism, a rigorous approach to responses to social problems. It will teach you how to expand your writing from identifying issues to putting a critical lens on potential solutions.

5

lessons

40min

An introduction to using data in Journalism

Do you want to get started with data journalism, but don't know how? Or do you need a refresher on the basics? This first module in The fundamentals of data journalism course will kickstart your data journalism journey with foundational building blocks. You will learn the basics of spreadsheets and data visualisation. And you will learn to apply your new skills and knowledge.

5

lessons

45min

How to clean, summarise and analyse data

As a journalist, you interview a lot of people for your stories; you should interview your data as if you were interviewing a person. In this module you will learn how to view, edit, and organise data in spreadsheets to inform the questions that your journalism output aims to answer.

5

lessons

36min

Formulas, functions, averages and ranking in Google Sheets

You can do data journalism without a maths or data science degree. In this module, you will learn how to do simple calculations in Google Sheets that will help you calculate and communicate data as evidence in your story telling.

5

lessons

1h 11min

Sorting and cleaning data for journalism

This module will teach you where and how you can source data for your journalism stories, how to clean and organise data so that it’s ready for analysing and visualising in your data story.

5

lessons

46:13min

Tools for visualising data in journalism

Visualisations bring the “ooooh” factor to data-driven journalism, but their purpose is greater than simply making your story “pretty”. This module will teach you where and how you can source data for your journalism stories, how to clean and organise data, as well as how to visualise data using simple charts.

2

lessons

38:78min

An introduction to visualising data using choropleth maps

In this course you will learn how to visualise data using a template map and a map you have found yourself. You will also learn how to source, visualise, and add data to a map for your story using Mapshaper, Datawrapper, and Flourish.

5

lessons

1h 33min

Features of our training

Find data online

Learn where to access data, and how to get it from PDFs onto your PC.

Spreadsheets

How they work, and how to master advanced features for data analysis.

Watch and learn

Our lessons are presented as short videos. Quick to watch and easy to replay.

Absolutely free

All Africa Data Hub’s tools are shared under licence. Use them, reuse them, share them with your colleagues.

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Africa Data Hub seeks to lower the barriers that African journalists face to access and use data in their storytelling around health and development.

This work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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