2019 Data Journalism Internship Test

2019 Data Journalism Internship Test

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INSTRUCTIONS

This test has a one-hour time limit. Please print clearly using a dark pencil or pen. Cell phones are not permitted. Participants and monitors should not divulge the contents of this test and no parts can be reproduced without written permission.

Copyright ? 2018 Dow Jones News Fund, Inc.

PART 1 - CURRENT EVENTS. Circle or fill in the best answer.

1. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been ___________________________________ before joining Trump's cabinet.

a. president of Exxon Oil Company

b. director of the C.I.A. c. chairman and CEO of International Business Machines

2. Students from a Florida high school coordinated a nationwide demonstration protesting __________________________________.

3. A gunman killed five newspaper staffers in Maryland in July at _____________________________________________________.

4. The Trump administration offered $12 billion in emergency relief to ______________ hurt by ongoing trade conflicts with China.

a. computer companies

b. automakers

c. farmers

5. Known as the Queen of Soul, ___________________________, was memorialized by throngs of mourners.

a. Aretha Franklin

b. Natalie Cole

c. Etta James

6. John Bolton is a. U.S. National Security Adviser b. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. c. Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

7. ____________________, the first African to be Secretary General of the United Nations, died in August.

a. Robert Mugabe

b. Kwame Nkrumah

c. Kofi Annan

8. _________________________________is a Pulitzer-Prize winner who just published a book about the Trump administration.

9. The president first said he would withdraw from but then bombed _____________, responding to a chemical attack on civilians.

a. Afghanistan

b. Lebanon

c. Syria

10. FOIA stands for _________________________________________________________________________________________.

11. I.C.E. was created in 2003 by merging elements of the U.S. Customs and U.S. Secret services.

a. True b. False

PART 1 - CURRENT EVENTS. (continued)

12. Russian envoys were expelled from several countries in retaliation for

a. nerve-agent attacks in England

b. computer hacking

c. the re-election of Vladimir Putin

13. U.S. Senator _________________________________ was buried at the U.S. Naval Academy, not Arlington National Cemetery.

14. A federal jury convicted former Republican presidential campaign chairman _______________________ of eight felonies.

a. Michael Cohen

b. Paul Manafort

c. David Pecker

15. People in ______________________ blocked highways and NBA games to protest police killing of Stephon Clark.

a. San Antonio

b. Seattle

c. Sacramento

16. Bitcoin is a type of ______________________.

a. stock

b. cryptocurrency

c. digital security

17. An anarchist sparked a legal controversy with plans to make 3-D blueprints for _______________ available on the internet.

a. small space capsules

b. firearms

c. synthetic drugs

18. Comedian and actor _____________________________ was sentenced to prison in Pennsylvania for rape while movie mogul

________________________________ faces rape and sexual assault charges in New York.

PART 2 - GRAMMAR AND USAGE. Underline the better answer.

1. The mid-term election is their's / theirs to lose.

2. The editor fretted over who / whom to send to the crash site. 3. After writing about scandal, the authors decided to excise / cut long sections of dialogue. 4. I wish she had drawn / drew a proverbial line in the sand. 5. The announcement rattled investor confidence after fluctuations in the commodities and futures market's / markets. 6. My friend and I hesitated at first, than / then started our own independent production company. 7. The General Data Protection Regulation applies to companies regardless / irregardless of where they are based that serve / serves clients in the EU. 8. If Paulette Jordan were to / was to win in November, she would be the nation's first Native American governor.

PART 3 - DATA TERMINOLOGY. Select the best definition.

1. Benchmarks a. points of comparison that help make data more meaningful b. references to cell positions in a spreadsheet c. the raw change from one point in time to another

2. Embed code a. HTML code that enables software to solve problems b. HTML users can copy code from a website to make its content appear in another c. malicious computer code used to spread viruses

PART 3 - DATA TERMINOLOGY. (continued)

3. Decennial census a. an attempt to count every person in the U.S. b. a survey based on a sample of a specific number of groups of 10,000 respondents c. 10 most-trusted sources of public information

4. Amount change refers to a. the percentage difference between two instances b. the raw change from one point in time to another c. the variation in plotted numbers +/-4% margin of error

5. CSV stands for comma-separated values

a. True

b. False

6. Standard deviation is a statistic that reports how data values in a column are dispersed.

7. Linear regression is a. a mathematical equation with more than one parameter per predictor variable b. a statistical procedure used to create a trend line for data displayed in a scatterplot chart

8. Temperatures are a type of continuous time-series data. a. True

b. False

a. True

b. False

PART 4 ? NUMERACY. Answer the questions associated with the number sets.

1. What is the mean? 400, 501, 250, 300, 350, 450, 150 ___________ 2. What is the mode? 50, 75, 75, 80, 65, 35, 45, 55 _____________ 3. What is the median? 110, 110, 110, 115, 125, 185, 195 _____________ 4. What does this graphic show? Select all correct responses.

Hundreds of students

a. Juniors and graduate students combined outnumber seniors and sophomores b. Sophomores plus graduate students outnumber seniors c. Seniors plus graduate students outnumber sophomores plus juniors d. Juniors plus seniors outnumber seniors plus graduate students e. All of the above

PART 4 ? NUMERACY. (continued)

Name each chart type.

a. line

b. scatterplot

c. fever

a. vertical

b. clustered vertical c. stacked vertical

PART 5 - TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY. Select each step you would take to analyze the data and prepare a story.

Jeremy Singer-Vine reported in Data Is Plural that a team led by Princeton sociologist and Evicted author Matthew Desmond has compiled the United States' first-ever national-scale, publicly-available database of eviction metrics. Among the information collected by the Eviction Lab is the data above about Minneapolis from 2004 to 2011.

a. Run a data integrity check using the documentation or metadata (record layout, data dictionary, code book). b. Make a copy of the metadata. c. Determine the file format, the number of rows and that all the columns present with proper headers. d. Make sure the column headers match those in the metadata and don't change them. e. Check the integrity of each column by generating pivot tables. Make notes in your data notebook. And follow this procedure for all columns. f. Use Excel text to columns tool, Open Refine or Structured Query Language to further clean data. g. Come up with summary statistics: average, mean, mode and median. h. All of the above i. None of the above since Dr. Desmond is an expert in his field.

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS: When you have finished, return this test to your monitor whose signature will certify it was completed within one hour. The monitor must mail your test postmarked by Nov. 12, 2018, to the Dow Jones News Fund, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300.

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