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education

04.07.10

Columbia’s new joint MS: Good start, but no panacea CAR, data visualizations, education, programming, theory | (3)
We've been retweeting it and raving about it all day in the data community - Columbia has made a big, big step forward in data journalism education by offering a new joint masters in journalism and computer science. We can add modules to existing curricula all we want, but this is a giant leap. There is a subset of journalists who need to learn to code. This certainly can't hurt, and can only help journalists, right? What will be interesting is what the graduates actually do with the degree. I didn't retweet it for a few hours, because, for once, an ...
11.24.09

A letter to journo-programmers: Teach me, inspire me education, programming, theory | (2)
I am, for the second time in two days, going to bring up Derek Willis, member of the Interactive News Technology Group at the New York Times and one of my current professors. Corny as this sounds, that class has literally changed my life, as I have reaffirmed my desire to become one of that sadly rare breed of journalists with programming skills. We call his class "Digital Frameworks for Reporting," but less formally, it's data class, CAR (Computer Assisted Reporting) class or techy class. Each three-hour session is something I look forward to every Thursday evening. And I'm ...