Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Friday, June 24th, 2016 — Sunday, June 26th, 2016 |
| Time: | 7:30 pm — 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, 1105 |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Cost: | Enrolment fee: $500 plus HST. There is a registration cap of 25 participants. A student price of $200 plus HST per person is also available for current registered students. The registration fee includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Register for only $400 until April 28th. |
This workshop will teach participants to to use spreadsheets, mapping and other software to turn raw data into stories. The course will emphasize the particular skills reporters and communicators need in order to develop innovative and intriguing ways to use data.
This intensive, hands-on workshop will help participants:
· Learn how to handle data in Microsoft Excel – from beginner to advanced
· Use mapping to find news stories in “spatial” data
· Create data sets of limitless size with MySQL
· Harvest data from the internet directly to their computer
Workshop Leaders
David McKie, CBC News Producer, Instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Glen McGregor, CTV Parliamentary Bureau Reporter