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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-journalis…

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

Want to know more? Contact kingsdata@ukings.ca

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.

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.

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-journalis…

@suenew Congrats Sue and Terra on double gold.

King's School of Journalism wins three 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards | University of King's College buff.ly/2TkCNJO #mojo

A big hello from the folks in my Six Skills in 60 Minutes session at #DataDrivenTO . Spreadsheets rock! Thanks for coming. @HumberJRNL @Ukingsdata @kingsjournalism

.@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

“How we made the BBC Audiences Tableau Style Guide” by @lekovicj medium.com/bbc-data-scien… H/T @adambailin

Here's how America uses its land bloom.bg/2OJi6F8

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language econ.st/2OxCF7t

the journalism hill i will die on is median's superiority to mean. twitter.com/emptywheel/sta…

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

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…

Happy 10010111 birthday Canada, from all of us at @ukings and @kingsjournalism.

Thanks to ⁦⁦@PhilipHahn⁩ for his Skype presentation on his ⁦@esricanada⁩ story maps. #KingsData10 #mapschool

Lunchtime at mapping school. Yum!

.@esricanada is a great partner and sponsor of the data schools. Thank you for your support. twitter.com/fvjones/status…

And thank you @JamesGIS and Caitlin Cunningham for all the help this week. twitter.com/jamesgis/statu…