Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

This session is intended to move your spreadsheet journalism up a notch. Participants will be introduced to statistical concepts, and how to prove or disprove whether two variables correlate. We will be using linear regression to show how to verify whether school test results and family income are correlated. Participants will be able to work in the context of their own country to understand the dynamics between family income and pupils' test scores, and learn how to report these results in plain language. We want to appetite for correlations and equip them with vital statistical concepts, and ways to do it without coding. The participants should be comfortable running basic Excel functions and be comfortable to work in a spreadsheet. They should NOT have very advanced statistical knowledge.