Data Reporting Doesn’t Have to be as Daunting as It Sounds

Register Now for NAREE University’s three-part Data Analysis Series for Real Estate Journalists.

Learn how to up your game in three, one-hour sessions that include Q & A.

Workshop Leader: Charles Minshew, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Moderator: NAREE President Eileen McEleney Woods, Boston Globe

You can join live on Zoom for Part 1 and Part 2, and meet in person in Atlanta at the NAREE Conference for Part 3.

Click here to save your Zoom spot. Zoom sessions are complimentary to NAREE members. NAREE’s in-person workshop is included in your #NAREE2022 conference registration fee. Register here for NAREE’s full conference Oct 11-14 in Atlanta.

After you’ve participated in NAREE's live Zooms, you can review both sessions at your own pace. NAREE will record Part 1 and Part 2 and post the links on the Members Only section of NAREE.org.

Mark your calendar for NAREE University Live on Zoom and in person in Atlanta:

Excel for Real Estate Journalists - Part 1 - 2:00 PM EST Friday, August 26 on Zoom

Whether you’re new to Excel or you’re familiar with spreadsheets, spend an hour getting up to speed on Microsoft Excel. Learn how to sort, filter and perform basic analysis on your data.

• Some functions we’ll cover include Sum, Average, and we’ll discuss how to compute percentage change.

Excel for Real Estate Journalists - Part 2 - 3:00 PM EST, Friday, September 16 on Zoom

Working with real estate and tax data can already be complicated enough when you’re collecting it from multiple sources. Getting it into the same format is key to analyzing trends in your market. Spend an hour learning strategies on how to clean your data to get it into the best shape for analysis.

Excel for Real Estate Journalists - Part 3 - 8:00 AM EST, Thursday, October 13 in person at the Westin Buckhead Atlanta

You’ve become familiar with Excel, you have clean data and you’re ready to analyze it for your next big story. We’ll discuss some more advance ways to analyze your data with pivot tables so you can quickly spot trends. Register here for NAREE’s full conference Oct 11-14 in Atlanta.

NAREE is very fortunate to have an expert at the helm of this workshop created by NAREE President Eileen Woods. Charles Minshew is the digital storytelling editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping journalists tell stories with data and digital tools. Charles is the former director of data services for Investigative Reporters & Editors, the world's largest organization for data and investigative journalists.

He has trained thousands of journalists in the latest techniques in investigative and data journalism. Charles previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel as a graphic artist with a focus on data.

In 2012, Charles was on the staff of The Denver Post that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of a shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado. Charles is a graduate of Georgia Southern University and the Missouri School of Journalism.

Charles says that you can also follow along using Google Sheets for these workshops, if you don’t have Excel.

Feel free to forward to real estate media colleagues.

Email questions to NAREE Executive Director Mary Doyle-Kimball at mdkimball@naree.org