Coding For Journalists 2017

Code and documentation to support IRE's multi-day Python bootcamp in Minneapolis on Nov. 3, 2017.

Course outline

Friday, Nov. 3 (12 - 5 p.m.)

• Introduction and goal-setting
• Why programming? Newsroom use cases and examples
• Python fundamentals
• Working with data files
• Functions

Saturday, Nov. 4 (9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

• Write a data-cleaning function
• Analyzing data with pandas
• Working with APIs: Send a message to Slack
• Working with APIs: Using data from Socrata
• Batch geocode a file of addresses

Sunday, Nov. 5 (9 a.m. - 7 p.m.)

• Let's scrape some websites
• Debugging errors
• Miscellaneous Python things
• Overview of learning resources
• Additional exercises (if time)
• Getting your computer set up to take back to your home/newsroom (optional)