How to Become A Numbers Person in Journalism

By: Meredith Broussard | PBS

Numeracy, or numerical literacy, is at the heart of data journalism. And if you are the kind of person who wants to become more numerate in order to do data journalism (maybe you’re a designer? A student? An inquisitive citizen?), one way to start is by thinking about a horse.

Specifically, I’d like you to imagine a large horse and rider facing you at the opposite end of a small wooden covered bridge, which is a situation I confronted recently in the woods near my house in Philadelphia. The horse was huge.