Data Journalism by Ken Blake.
From the webpage:
Learning to use a spreadsheet will transform how you do what you do as a media professional. The YouTube-hosted videos below demonstrate some of the possibilities. If you like, download the datasets and follow along.
I use the PC version of Excel 2010, Microsoft’s cheap, ubiquitous spreadsheet program. It can do some things that the Mac version can’t. But if you’re a Mac user, you’ll still find plenty worth watching.
Everything is free to watch and download. If you’d like to use these materials elsewhere, please just e-mail me first and ask permission. Questions, suggestions and requests are welcome, too. See my contact information.
And check back now and then. I’ll be adding more stuff soon.
Disclaimer: These tutorials will not help you perform NLP on Klingon nor are they a guide to GPU-based deep learning in order to improve your play in Mortal Kombat X.
Having gotten those major disappointments out of the way, these tutorials will help you master Excel and to use it effectively in uncovering the misdeeds of small lives in local and state government.
To use “big data” tools with small data is akin to hunting rats with an elephant gun. Doable, but expensive and difficult to master.
As an added bonus, processing small data will give you experience with the traps and pitfalls of data, which remain important whether your data sets are big or small.
Enjoy!