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Having a data journalist in the newsroom is definitely a great asset when it comes to crunching numbers or creating a rich data visualisation based on different sources.

You can do this even if you're in a smaller news organisation or have access to less resources. As Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, a Tow-Knight fellow explains in this post, you can train existing members of your newsroom to specialise in data, whether they're journalists or developers.

Having founded DataN, an affordable data training package for newsrooms, he recommends joining online courses to become more familiar with data and consider bringing in an external trainer to save time and resources.

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