Reporting with data

Data reporting has come to mean many things. One of the best descriptions that fits this course is the moniker, “Empirical Journalism”. For us, that means taking a systematic approach to finding, acquiring, evaluating and analyzing all kinds of data for the purpose of uncovering information that was hidden or otherwise ill-understood by the general public. It will teach you to use documents and data as sources like any other, with flaws and motivations that might thwart or help you report a story.

This introductory section reminds you that data reporting is, indeed, reporting.