Reading is Important
Nursing licenses, parking tickets and court case records are perfect examples of this.
What is datasets?
In Google Sheets, this begins with an equals sign and instructs the spreadsheet to perform calculations or other operations within a cell.
What is a formula?
This hotkey is used to copy selected items to the clipboard.
What is Command + C?
In Google Sheets, this is a vertical group of cells labeled with letters at the top of the sheet.
What is a column?
This is the process of representing analytical data through graphical formats like charts and graphs in journalism.
What is data visualization?
Journalists have been using spreadsheets to organize data and simplify calculations since this decade.
What is the 1980s?
This function is used to add numbers in a series.
What is SUM?
Use this hotkey to paste the contents of the clipboard.
What is Command + V?
In Google Sheets, this is a horizontal group of cells that is identified by numbers on the left side of the sheet.
What is a row?
Data journalists use this tool to visually represent geographical data, such as crime locations or election results.
What are interactive maps?
This type of data is structured in such a way that it can be automatically read and processed by computers.
What is machine-readable data?
These basic commands allow you to duplicate data from one part of your spreadsheet to another in Google Sheets.
What is copy and paste?
This hotkey cuts the selected items and copies them to the clipboard.
What is Command + X?
This is a method that involves circling around the name and write labels that represent the different identities and roles the person has in life.
What is "The Circle of Light"?
This graphical representation displays words from a text, with the size of each word indicating its frequency or importance.
What is a word cloud?
This is the end result of a logical evaluation where the final answer can only be true or false.
What is a boolean?
Each individual page within a Google Sheets spreadsheet file is known by this name.
What is a sheet?
Press this hotkey to undo the last action.
What is Command + Z?
Cities like Chicago and Boston use these online platforms to share data sets on various civic issues, accessible to anyone.
What are public websites?
These coding languages are essential for creating interactive and engaging online news stories in data journalism.
What are HTML and CSS?
This person created a database and visualizations about crime in Chicago - the first of it's kind.
Who is Adrian Holovaty?
This feature in Google Sheets allows you to display only the rows that meet certain criteria, hiding the others.
What is filtering?
This hotkey selects all items in the current document or window.
What is Command + A?
This U.S. law is frequently used by data journalists to obtain records needed for in-depth reporting.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
Data journalism has adapted to this platform, ensuring visualizations and interactive stories fit on smaller screens.