I've just returned from a week in China, teaching data journalism to students from all over the country at Fudan University (sponsored by the U.S. China Education Trust).

Helped by a fabulous co-instructor, Yan Lu, we taught them about acquiring data, data wrangling, storytelling, visualization, SQL, mapping, news apps and more.

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The students, working journalists and professors, were quite impressive. Working in groups, they created several data-driven projects of their own — a few of which were publishable after just a few days' work.

[caption id="attachment_2928" align="alignnone" width="840"]For a mapping exercise, students identified several locations by latitude and longitude. For a mapping exercise, students identified several locations by latitude and longitude. [/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2924" align="alignnone" width="840"]Students demo their project related to Chinese perception of the U.S. presidential election. Students demo their project related to Chinese perception of the U.S. presidential election. [/caption]

I love China, and it was a real honor to be invited to work with such talented group. 谢谢