[ddj] Learning Lunches on School of Data blog: wrapup

Thu Nov 28 15:06:02 UTC 2013

Hi all,

The republication of a selection of Noah
Veltman<http://noahveltman.com#sthash.C91TwnrP.dpuf>'s
Learning Lunches on the School of Data blog
<http://schoolofdata.org/blog/> wrapped
up earlier this week.

These Lunches are friendly but thorough tutorials on technical subjects
important to the modern newsroom, demystifying them and making it possible
for journalists, developers, and designers to have better conversations
around them.

These Lunches were featured on the blog:

* SQL: The Prequel (Excel vs.
Databases)<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/07/sql-databases-vs-excel/>
* So you want to make a map...<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/09/web-mapping/>
* Avoiding mistakes when cleaning your
data<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/14/avoiding-mistakes-cleaning-data/>
* Web APIs for non-programmers<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/18/web-apis-for-non-programmers/>
* XML and JSON: the tale of the
tape<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/21/xml-and-json/>
* Scraping the web <http://schoolofdata.org/2013/11/25/scraping-the-web/>

A couple of Learning Lunches less directly pertinent to School of Data's
data-oriented mission were not posted on the blog, but they're still
awesome, so I suggest you read them
here<https://github.com/veltman/learninglunches>
.

-- 
Neil Ashton

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