Practical guides for data journalists
Not sure where to start with a dataset? Need a structured checklist to make sure you haven't missed anything? These guides give you frameworks and tools to work through data journalism challenges step by step.
Checklists
Checklists walk you through a process from start to finish, so you don't miss a step. They're designed to be used interactively — check items off as you go, and your progress is saved in your browser.
- Finding Stories in Data — interrogate a new dataset and surface story angles. Covers source interrogation, descriptive statistics, rankings, rates, time & geographic patterns, outliers, missing data, verification, and the news test.
- Tidy Data — turn a messy spreadsheet into clean, analysis-ready data. Covers wide vs. long format, merged cells, inconsistent values, data types, and a final tidy check.