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Kings Data

@Ukingsdata

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.

 Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Joined April 2015
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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: kingsjournalism.com/data-jou…
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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 bit.ly/2K7brU4
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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.
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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.
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Want to know more? Contact [email protected]
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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: kingsjournalism.com/data-jou…
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A big hello from the folks in my Six Skills in 60 Minutes session at #DataDrivenTO . Spreadsheets rock! Thanks for coming. @HumberJRNL @Ukingsdata @kingsjournalism
Image from Fred Vallance-Jones (@Fvjones)
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.@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
Image from Fred Vallance-Jones (@Fvjones)
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“How we made the BBC Audiences Tableau Style Guide” by @lekovicj medium.com/bbc-data-science/… H/T @adambailin
How we made the BBC Audiences Tableau Style Guide

How we made the BBC Audiences Tableau Style Guide

tl;dr — we made a style guide to help our teams make awesome dashboards, you can see it on Tableau Public

medium.com
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Here's how America uses its land bloom.bg/2OJi6F8
Image from Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar)
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Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language econ.st/2OxCF7t
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the journalism hill i will die on is median's superiority to mean. teapawt.org/emptywheel/status/1024…
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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 ow.ly/7Sxp30l1K9Z
Image from The American Geographical Society (@AmericanGeo)
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Elections Nova Scotia doesn't have a searchable database for political contributions. So I made one. Here's what I got from it. #NovaScotia globalnews.ca/news/4308046/p…

$1.8 million: A by the numbers look at political donations in Nova Scotia in 2017 - Halifax |...

The donations — which totaled $1,824,382 — give a glimpse of who raised what and where for each party. 

globalnews.ca
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Happy 10010111 birthday Canada, from all of us at @ukings and @kingsjournalism.
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Thanks to ⁦⁦@PhilipHahn⁩ for his Skype presentation on his ⁦@esricanada⁩ story maps. #KingsData10 #mapschool
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Lunchtime at mapping school. Yum!
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.@esricanada is a great partner and sponsor of the data schools. Thank you for your support. teapawt.org/fvjones/status/1012700… – at Halifax, Nova Scotia
Fred Vallance-Jones (@Fvjones) profile pictureFred Vallance-Jones@Fvjones29 Jun 2018
.⁦@jazzyGIS⁩ explains ⁦@ArcGISOnline⁩ to the students in the @ukingsdata summer school in mapping for journalists. Welcome Jasmine to ⁦@ukings⁩.
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And thank you @JamesGIS and Caitlin Cunningham for all the help this week. teapawt.org/jamesgis/status/101267… – at Halifax, Nova Scotia
James Boxall (flying off to @jamesgis.bsky.social) (@JamesGIS) profile pictureJames Boxall (flying off to @jamesgis.bsky.social)@JamesGIS29 Jun 2018
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 !!!
Image from James Boxall (flying off to @jamesgis.bsky.social) (@JamesGIS)
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Getting started with the first ever ⁦@ukings⁩ data school in mapping for journalism. #KingsData10
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