Your First Data Project
For school students. Pick a question about something you care about, find the data, and finish something you can show people.
You do not need to know how to code to start this. You need one question you actually want the answer to.
By the end you will have a finished, small project — a question, some data you gathered or found, a chart, and an honest paragraph about what it shows. That is the whole of data work in miniature, and everything else in the Academy is a larger version of it.
Every lesson is free and needs no sign-up.
Syllabus
Pick a question
Choosing something small, real and yours — and why "is my bus usually late" beats "climate change".
Collect the data
Counting things yourself, finding a file online, and writing down where it came from.
Tidy it up
One row per thing, one column per fact, and fixing the rows that do not fit.
Look at it
Your first chart, and what it does and does not tell you.
Asking Claude for help
Using it to explain an error or suggest a next step — and checking what it tells you.
Show someone
Explaining what you found in five sentences, including what you are unsure about.