We are living in the information age. Everything we do generates an information shadow. Data is being collected, presented and acted upon in real time. The scale of online participation has increased by orders of magnitude. In this world of exponential growth on the web, the skills required to collect, process and share information have become integral to success in a broad range of careers. This class will cover techniques and enabling technologies for collecting, processing and sharing information. At the end of this class you will have the skills to efficiently find the information you need, analyze it, tell a story with it and share it on the web in a user friendly format.