Courses and Toolkits

Improve your data journalism skills

WHAT OUR COURSES AND TOOLKITS OFFER

ADH Online Courses and Toolkits offer journalists and storytellers video-guided lessons to learn data skills step-by-step through online courses, while toolkits provide hands-on resources for practicing and applying those skills independently.

Courses and Toolkits Features

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An introduction to Solutions Journalism
In this lesson you will learn: What solutions journalism and why it is important and why solutions journalism should be a form journalists pursue

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Featured toolkit

Data Collection & Analysis Toolkit
This toolkit addresses the growing need for effective climate reporting in low and middle-income countries.

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How to do solutions journalism

This course introduces you to the concept of solutions journalism through a series of lectures by experienced members of Solutions Journalism Network. It is intended to make you conscious of why this form of journalism is valuable and necessary. The introduction to solutions journalism is also aimed at helping you get started in the process of producing your own solutions journalism story.

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40min

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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 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.

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45min

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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 course you will learn how to view, edit, and organise data in spreadsheets to inform the questions that your journalism output aims to answer.

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36min

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Formulas, functions, averages and ranking in Google Sheets

You can do data journalism without a maths or data science degree. In this course, 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.

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1h 11min

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Sorting and cleaning data for journalism

This course 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.

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46:13min

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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 course 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.

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38:78min

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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.

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1h 33min

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Around the world in a few ways

Practical earth observation for armchair astronauts

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Data Collection & Analysis Toolkit

This toolkit addresses the growing need for effective climate reporting in low and middle-income countries.

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COURSES AND TOOLKITS FEATURES

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Find data online

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

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Spreadsheets

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

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Watch and learn

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

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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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