Chad Skelton
BAA (TMU), MIM (Dalhousie)BIO:
Chad Skelton, an award-winning data journalist, is a consultant and trainer based in Vancouver. Chad worked as a data journalist at The Vancouver Sun until 2015. Chad has received the Jack Webster Award, B.C.’s top journalism prize, six times, most recently in 2013 for a series on political donations and lobbyists. In 2014, he won an international Data Journalism Award for his portfolio of work in the previous year. Chad created The Sun's public-sector salary database, which has received more than 20 million pageviews, and built popular interactive tools on everything from commuting patterns to income inequality. He also made a Twitter robot that checks court judgments (@BCCourtBot). Chad has given several talks on data and storytelling, including at the 2015 Tapestry Conference sponsored by Tableau Software.
Courses taught
- JRNL 1160 - Intro to Journalism
- JRNL 1220 - Citizen Journalism
- JRNL 3165 - Data Visualization
- JRNL 4270 - Advanced Storytelling
Areas of Interest
Data journalism, data visualization, data analysis, numeracy, citizen journalism, government transparency.