My syllabus, and most of the material’s you’ll need for class live at:
http://amandabee.github.io/CUNY-data-skills/
Read: Searches for “sundown” on Yom Kippur, Homicide Watch intervew, Homicide Watch on Search Queries
I also encourage you to read http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/12/scooped-by-code/ to give some context to the next fifteen weeks.
Please take a moment to install …
…on your laptop. We’ll be using all three in class. They’re all available free of charge.
Weekly Reading:
- Read Kevin Quealy’s blog, “Charts and Things”: http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com
- Read Source, Knight-Mozilla’s blog on code and journalism http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/learning/
- Read Marketing Sherpa (Email Subscription)