Hands-on data training for journalists and other data storytellers.
1-on-1 sessions to level up your data skills, booked in bundles and scheduled around your time and project.
Online meetings booked around your calendar and the timeline of your project. Support via Discord in between.
A personalized path covering exactly the topics you choose, matched to your project and your goals as a data storyteller.
Mentorship includes full access to The Pond community with trainings, resources, Discord, and networking with other data professionals.
The data journalism mentorship with Ada is truly brilliant! Her guidance didn't just open up a door to a new skill set, it improved my way of reporting and transformed my approach to stories.
Sarah Emler
Reporter at ORF (Austria)
Ada's bright personality together with her encouraging teaching style put a smile on my face at every session. I learned to work with my data, create datasets, learned to cross-reference and realized that Python is just a language, and not a monster preying on me.
Charlotte Wirth
Freelance investigative reporter
Blog
Read the words as critically as you read the numbers — what a health-data Pondcast taught us about LLM bias.
Blog
Let the computer track your units and never miscalculate gigatons vs megatons again.
Blog
Why percentages mislead, and what journalists can do about it.
Video
What text embeddings are and how to put them to work in practice.
Video
Uncovering narratives and insights from healthcare expenditure data.
Video
Discussing methods for measuring carbon dioxide emissions.
A step-by-step checklist to interrogate any dataset and surface story angles — from first look to context checks.
What tidy data is, the most common ways spreadsheets go wrong, and a checklist to confirm your data is analysis-ready.
Build intuition for what pivot tables do, how to read them, and how to construct them from a question.
A community for and by nerds in the newsroom.
2 online training sessions per month on data journalism topics — from spreadsheets to Python to data visualization.
Curated resources, tutorials, and practical guides to help you do better data journalism.
Connect with fellow data journalists. Ask questions, share your work, and get peer feedback.
Stay in the loop with tips, new tutorials, and what's happening in the data journalism world.
Data Journalist & Educator
Hi! I'm Ada. I am a freelance data & investigative journalist and teacher. Over more than 10 years, I made a lot of stories with small and big datasets and I am here to share what I learned along the way.
From the start of my career, I’ve loved helping other journalists get comfortable with data, brecause I believe these skills should be for everyone. Over the years, I’ve given countless lectures, taught at conferences like Dataharvest and NICAR, given guest lectures in the Master’s program in Gothenburg, and mentored journalists 1:1 through programs like IJ4EU.
I founded Data Frosch by accident, because I bought a frog hat last winter. It's a fun way to put myself out there and help others find me.
If you are curious about my extended portfolio have a look at my website. Connect with me on LinkedIN, or subscribe to personal newsletter!
