Now that you know the basics about data journalism, get ready to take your skills to the next level. You'll leave the course with more confidence on how to tame data, make more powerful visualisations and build stronger cases from your investigative reporting.

Course tutor: Kevin Anderson (read our Meet the Trainer feature)

Date: 29 May
Time: 10:00-17:00
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, London W1
Number of places: 10 max
Cost: £225 + VAT

The course is aimed at journalists and editors who have a basic understanding of spreadsheets and data and want to learn more practical skills, as well as previous attendees of our 'introduction to data journalism' course.

This course will cover:

• Beyond average: Getting savvy with statistics
• More advanced spreadsheet techniques
• Making more of maps
• Interactive visualisations

You will leave with an understanding of:

• How to mashup data
• How to use pivot tables in spreadsheets
• How to tidy unruly data with Google Refine
• Bringing a data story to life - visualisation, case studies and personalisation

About Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist since 1996. In 1998, he became the first online journalist for the BBC outside of the UK, becoming the BBC News website's first Washington correspondent. In 2005, he came to London to write BBC News' blogging strategy and to launch Pods and Blogs on 5Live. He was part of the launch team for World Have Your Say on the BBC World Service.

In 2006, he became The Guardian's first blogs editor, a position he held until 2009 when he became Digital Research Editor, working with editors to develop data-driven and social media projects. He was also a contributor to The Guardian's Datablog. He is now a freelance journalist and digital strategist. He also speaks at journalism events in the UK and abroad, and he frequently appears on the BBC, Sky and ITV as a media and technology analyst.

About Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw divides his time between being a visiting professor at City University, London, course leader for the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, and a freelance trainer, speaker and writer. His background is in magazine editing and editorial website management and he has contributed to several books about the internet and journalism.

In 2009 Paul founded Help Me Investigate – a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism. The site was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year in the 2010 NUJ Regional Media Awards, and won Best Investigation at the Talk About Local awards 2010.