DePaul的数据新闻事业集中于通过数据和非线性叙事报道故事。它使学生​​能够通过社会科学报告，数据挖掘和可视化解决我们许多主要的社会问题，包括犯罪，贫困，获得医疗保健，无家可归以及各种形式的虐待。该中心的目标是通过将经典的公平，平衡和公正的新闻价值与数字化和开源文化的价值相结合，找到并报道重要的新闻。毕业生将准备在迅速发展的结合了新闻学和尖端技术的出版物市场中找到工作。
The concentration in Data Journalism at DePaul focuses on reporting stories through data and non-linear storytelling. It enables students to cover many of our major social problems?crime, poverty, access to health care, homelessness, and various forms of abuse?through social science reporting, data mining and visualization. The concentration's objectives are to find and report important stories by integrating classic journalistic values of fairness, balance and impartiality with the values of digitalization and open-source culture. Graduates will be prepared to find jobs in the rapidly growing marketplace of publications that combine journalism and cutting-edge technology.