Data Skills is a required first semester course in CUNY's Social Journalism Masters program, which I last taught Spring 2015.
The gh-pages branch of this repository feeds a public facing site that I direct students to for walk-throughs that we need in class, and for homework instructions. You may find some typos there, or room for improvement, but in general I intend those pages to be read and followed by Data Skills students.
My own weekly notes and course plans live on the master branch of the repository. You're welcome to read through them for a sense of how I approach planning for class, but you might find them too thin or cryptic to actually crib from.
You might also be interested in a few other courses that I teach or have taught:
- Data-Driven Storytelling -- a second semester class in the MA in Journalism.
- Digital Praxis Seminar -- a seminar in the Digital Humanities Masters/PhD program at The Graduate Center
- Fundamentals of Interactive -- a 10 week first semester class in the MA in Journalism
- Fundamentals of Numeracy -- a two part lecture on writing about numbers
- Newsgames -- a five week course that is secretly an introduction to coding, built around editing progressively more complex codebases.
- Craft II -- a very loose jumble of notes towards a handful of interactive lessions that I prepared for Craft II. This is definitely incomplete -- I always team taught this course and we didn't wind up using Github much for lesson planning.
This semester we will work together to gather, analyze and visualize numbers you need to understand your audience and to tell interactive data-driven stories.