# d|Bootcamp Taipei is ...
Hands-on courses which give journalists the basis of data journalism by experts from all over the world.
Do you want to play with data?
In the age of open data, we need new skills to deal with the overwhelming informations. Data bootcamp Taipei focuses on providing journalists a series of crash courses which guide them to do data journalism from scratch.
With the help of professional lecturers and teaching assistants, you will learn how to do data journalism - getting and scraping data, tools to deal with data, fundamental of data visualization and the most important - actually building a project with people from different domains - join in the following 2 days g0v hackathon event to bring your idea to life!
Is Coding Skill a Requirement ?
Absolutely Not! Data Bootcamp Taipei is designed for every journalists regardless of coding skill. So don't worry, you don't have to be a coder to join this workshop.
** note: attendees must bring their own laptop and install modern browsers like Chrome or Firefox beforehand.
