Getting insights out of complex data is a valuable skill in our information age. I can give you or your team intensive workshops on the following techniques:

• Basic and advanced spreadsheet skills
• Visualizing data simply and effectively with different tools (Excel, Tableau, Flourish, and various other charting tools)
• Basic and advanced mapping for research and for public presentation
• Scraping data from websites
• Cleaning messy data for accurate analysis
• Telling a great data-driven story
• Fundamentals of programming with Python or JavaScript

I’ve given classes, guest lectures, and workshops for several institutions and organizations, including:

• University of Ottawa
• Boston University
• McGill University
• National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting
• Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec
• PyCon Canada

Contact me for rates and details.