Intro to Data & Code

Lena Groeger, ProPublica, September 2015

1.Data Journalism: What is it & Why Should I Care?

2. How to Get Data From the Web

3. What to Do With Your Data

Resources, Tutorials, Etc

Learning to Code

Scott Murray's D3 Turtorials

Jon Keefe's Mapping Tutorial

Something I wrote about learning to code.

Code with Me workshops, cheat sheets & online exercises

Communities & Behind the Scenes

NICAR, the NICAR-L listserv & the NICAR 2016 conference

Hacks/Hackers, which has meetup groups all over the country (and world!)

Knight-Mozilla OpenNews including the community/documentation project SOURCE and the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship

The ProPublica Nerd Blog

Bloomberg Businessweek Graphics Blog

HTML/CSS:

Don't Fear the Internet Video Series

Let's make a webpage Tutorial

HTML Beginner Tutorial

CSS Beginner Tutorial

Data Viz:

Good Ol’ Excel Is The Ultimate Data Visualization Tool

ChartBuilder

CartoDB

Google Fusion Tables

Timeline JS

Web Scraping

Dan Ngyuen's intro to web scraping

Chrome Extension Scraper

Import.io

Other tools listed here.

Data & Excel

A few of my own tutorials on Google Spreadsheets, Excel, and more Excel.

MaryJo Webster's data journalism training materials, including Excel Magic: Tips and Tricks (here's the data to go with it).

A list of tutorials from last year's NICAR conference

Design:

A Guide to Visual Design

Design Principles for News Apps and Graphics

The Non-Designers Design Book

Illustrator:

Illustrator Basics: A Tutorial

Illustrator Tools