Are you looking to up your game on using data to tell a story? The Chicago Journalists Association is offering a free virtual data journalism training opportunity for its members from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Aug. 12.

The virtual training will be led by Mike Reilley, professor and founder of the Journalist’s Toolbox.

The training will cover:

• Data scraping web pages with Google Sheets
• Scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel.com
• Building graphics with Flourish.studio
• Prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to build infographics

Participants will receive handouts with all of the course materials. Be sure to set up a free Flourish account before the session if you don’t already have one.

Register for your ticket to the training ASAP.

This event is offered as a benefit exclusively for CJA members. If you aren’t a member but are interested in joining to take advantage of this free training and other member benefits, please visit our membership website.

This training is part of the Chicago Journalists Association’s mission to offer professional development to local journalists and communicators.