JRNL3700 (Data Storytelling) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores select topics in data journalism and supports data-driven storytelling projects of various kinds. Course units foster moderate technical learning of applications and software; incorporate theories from relevant fields in data visualization and data science; and emphasize storytelling for broad public audiences. Seeks to foster knowledge of both the classic and cutting-edge forms for telling stories with data. Offers students an opportunity to obtain a sense of rigor in analyzing and using data and statistics and to build knowledge of a variety of tools to clean, analyze, and visualize data. Journalists are becoming more sophisticated in their approaches to quantitative information, drawing on the growing amount of open data sets and using software and techniques borrowed from the social sciences and data science.
Data updated October 2026.