Guides

Practical guides for data journalists

• Coding the News • Learn how America's top news organizations escape rigid publishing systems to design beautiful data-driven stories on deadline
• First Athena Query • Analyze millions of records in seconds with Amazon Web Services and SQL
• First Automated Chart • Learn how you can use Python and the Datawrapper API to create a limitless number of charts and maps.
• First Basemap • Create a shockingly fast and virtually free interactive map of the world using OpenStreetMap and PMTiles
• First Django Admin • A guide to creating a web application for enlisting reporters in data entry and refinement
• First GitHub Scraper • An introduction to free, automated web scraping with GitHub Actions
• First LLM Classifier • Learn how journalists use large-language models to organize and analyze massive datasets
• First Observable Notebook • A course on programming interactive graphics with Observable notebooks
• First PMTiles Map • Learn how to display a massive dataset on an interactive map using PMTiles and MapLibre
• First Pull Request • How to propose changes to open-source software using GitHub pull requests
• First Python Notebook • A guide to analyzing data with Python and the Jupyter notebook
• First Visual Story • A guide to publishing a standalone story from a dataset
• First Web Scraper • A guide to writing a web scraper with Python
• Go big with GitHub Actions • Scale up your data pipelines using GitHub’s powerful Actions framework