Kings Data

Tweeting about data journalism from the University of King's College, home to the Summer School in Data Journalism and MJ in investigative and data journalism.

[Fred Vallance-Jones @Fvjones]

General registration is now open for the 2020 @kingsjournalism Summer School in Data Journalism, this year being offered online in conjunction with the @caj, @esricanada and @able2extract. Full details here: https://t.co/lvxOGc2pjv

[Fred Vallance-Jones @Fvjones]

The deadline for this $1,000 data journalism scholarship from @able2extract has been extended to May 1. Enrolled or accepted in a journalism program? Check it out at https://t.co/c5j9jnp08z

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

Want to know more? Contact [email protected]

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

We cover getting, cleaning and analyzing data using Excel and SQL, as well as making simple visualizations. It happens in one of Canada's best summer cities for fun, Halifax. Our grads are some of Canada's top data and investigative journalists, from newsrooms big and small.

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

Rates are frozen from 2018. You also get a free copy of The Data Journalist from Oxford University Press and @able2extract PDF extraction software from our major sponsor Investintech Inc, valued together at more than $200. It's an amazing week of training unparalleled in Canada.

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

There’s still room in the @ukingsjournalism @ukings 2019 summer school in data journalism, June 24-28. This intensive week will give you the fundamental skills you need to work with data to break big stories. Full details here: https://t.co/LVLp2mPKbG

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

@suenew Congrats Sue and Terra on double gold.

[Fred Vallance-Jones @Fvjones]

A big hello from the folks in my Six Skills in 60 Minutes session at #DataDrivenTO . Spreadsheets rock! Thanks for coming. @HumberJRNL @Ukingsdata @kingsjournalism

[Fred Vallance-Jones @Fvjones]

.@ukingsjournalism alumnus @NaelShiab of @iciradiocanada in Montreal talks about his innovative approaches to mobile storytelling at #DataDrivenTO. The challenge: making visualizations work on tiny screens. @Ukingsdata @HumberJRNL

[NickMHalliday now @hallidaynick.bsky.social @nickmhalliday]

“How we made the BBC Audiences Tableau Style Guide” by @lekovicj https://t.co/4ZwN24EPpP H/T @adambailin

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Here's how America uses its land https://t.co/eOvbVw1JpG

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language https://t.co/i4M68CMTeY

[Steven Rich @dataeditor]

the journalism hill i will die on is median's superiority to mean. https://t.co/PYm9Tt8v2W

[The American Geographical Society @AmericanGeo]

This map shows where in the US there are more bars than grocery stores, and vice versa. It's amazing the things you can learn with data! #maps #data
https://t.co/Cq6a6Dh75C

[Alexander Quon @AlexanderQuon]

Elections Nova Scotia doesn't have a searchable database for political contributions. So I made one. Here's what I got from it. #NovaScotia
https://t.co/G7UqAWMs1h

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

Happy 10010111 birthday Canada, from all of us at @ukings and @kingsjournalism.

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

Thanks to ⁦⁦@PhilipHahn⁩ for his Skype presentation on his ⁦@esricanada⁩ story maps. #KingsData10 #mapschool

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

Lunchtime at mapping school. Yum!

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

.@esricanada is a great partner and sponsor of the data schools. Thank you for your support. https://t.co/Yg9oUQ27gM

[Fred Vallance-Jones @Fvjones]

.⁦@jazzyGIS⁩ explains ⁦@ArcGISOnline⁩ to the students in the @ukingsdata summer school in mapping for journalists.
Welcome Jasmine to ⁦@ukings⁩.

[Kings Data @Ukingsdata]

And thank you @JamesGIS and Caitlin Cunningham for all the help this week. https://t.co/UChZkQueXk

[James Boxall (flying off to @jamesgis.bsky.social) @JamesGIS]

Leaving some fun for last day data mapping 4 journalism. Thanks @esricanada for tremendous support (yup.. tiny moral support from Dal @EsriCanada_CE ) @GISGeekNorth @SandsofJura @alexmiller50 @jazzyGIS @deepseadawn thanks for leading two weeks (and pizza) @Fvjones !!!