The massive open online course (MOOC) “Intro to R for Journalists: How to Find Great Stories in Data [1],” from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, is a free course open to anyone interested in quickly asking questions of and assessing data. It is meant for journalists, editors, journalism professors and students, but anyone from anywhere in the world who has an interest in data analysis and visualization is welcome to enroll.

The course runs July 23-August 26, 2018 with instructor Andrew Ba Tran, data reporter for the Washington Post’s rapid response investigative team.