S9:E2 - What is data journalism and how do you tell stories through your code (Sandeep Junnarkar)

In this episode, we chat with Sandeep Junnarkar, Director of Interactive Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He tells us about his journey into code launching the New York Times on the web, what data journalism is and how to do it, and why it’s important to tell stories through code.

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• jQuery
• fuzzywuzzy
• gender-guesser
• Beautiful Soup
• Hate Index
• JSON
• D3
• JavaScript
• Python
• Excel
• Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
• Lodash
• NLTK
• pandas

Sandeep Junnarkar

Sandeep Junnarkar is an associate professor and the director of Interactive Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. The program’s goal is to train students to use coding to gather and analyze data that can be visualized in unique ways, allowing audiences to explore that content. He previously worked for The New York Times on a team that first brought the publication onto the Internet and Web.