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Six Rules for Writing a Straight News Lead
Media Writing Tips
A three-part intro to data journalism
Basic Data Analysis with Google Sheets
Data Visualization with Google Sheets
Making Data-Driven Maps with Google My Maps
Data analysis
Spreadsheet basics for journalists
SEJ 2019
Finding gender gaps in pay and promotion: pivot tables, chi squares, and t-tests
Analyzing Superbowl Tweets about Tide Pods
Understanding poll error margins and statistical ties
Digging into the raw College Scorecard data
Making data-driven explanatory videos
Getting API data with Excel
Wolfram Alpha demo
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Making news maps with Google MyMaps
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Using Python code to access an API
Latest bills by a member of Congress
TN County-level COVID-19 Spreadsheet Reader
Google Mobility Data Downloader
NYTimes COVID-19 County Data Downloader
GDELT Headline Scrape
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R Data Analysis Guide
GDELT Headline Fetch
Dive Headfirst into R
Mapping ACS data
National Bridge Inventory map
Typical two-bedroom rent tops $1,300 in Rutherford County
Mapping Small-Area Fair Market Rent by ZIP code
Change in a county-level ACS variable
Slider map (median rent)
Slider map code
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