Slides from my presentation at Mountlake Terrace High School

1. DATA JOURNALISM FOR
HIGH SCHOOL
JOURNALISTS
WITH TABLEAU PUBLIC
Jewel Loree, Sr Data Analyst, @jeweloree

2. What is data journalism?
Finding stories
through data
Communicatin
g numerical
information
Engaging your
audience with
graphics

3. What is data journalism?
Finding stories
through data
Communicatin
g numerical
information
Engaging your
audience with
graphics

4. What is data journalism?
Finding stories
through data
Communicatin
g numerical
information
Engaging your
audience with
graphics

5. What is data journalism?
Finding stories
through data
Communicatin
g numerical
information
Engaging your
audience with
graphics

6. Using Tableau Public for Data
Journalism
 Free
 Easy to use, no
programming
needed
 Dedicated support
team
 Get your data
graphics featured on
our website

7. Data Ideas for High School
Journalists
 School Sports Data- easily available at
http://www.maxpreps.com/
 Make polls with Google Forms and visualize
the results: report on what your student body is
interested in!
 Local data: school district demographics,
juvenile arrests, voting results:
https://data.wa.gov/
 Any topic that YOU think is interesting. Lots of
datasets available here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets

8. Getting Started
 Tutorials and sample datasets:
https://public.tableau.com/s/resources
 Inspiration: https://public.tableau.com/s/gallery
 Get stuck? Email Jewel: jloree@tableau.com
or tweet: @jeweloree