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|description=Challenge: We need to assemble a utility belt for data-driven journalists! | |||
There’s increasing pressure on journalists to drive news stories and visualizations from data. But where do you start? What skills are needed to do data-driven journalism well? What’s missing from existing tools and documentation? Put together a user-friendly handbook for finding, cleaning, sorting, creating, and visualizing data — all in service of powerful stories and reporting. | |||
A group of leading data journalists, developers and others are meeting to kickstart work on the handbook. Read more. | |||
Hosted by: Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation and Liliana Bounegru, European Journalism Centre | |||
|skills=We're looking for people with the following skill sets: | |||
* data journalists | |||
* data visualization | |||
* designers | |||
* infographic designers | |||
* interactive news editors | |||
* news app developers | |||
* news hackers | |||
* open data experts | |||
* developers, keen to write tutorials | |||
|posteventparticipation=The deadline for the first draft is Sunday 6th November, 5pm GMT (if you want us to mention your contribution in the closing ceremony presentation). | |||
If you would like to participate remotely, please email: bounegru [at] ejc.net | |||
|hashtags=#ddjbook | |||
|relevantlinks=[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18YOaGj0LyRn6x1tcCH2wIWHYqwnMiDCGInbVHe210rM/edit?authkey=CLrotIQH&hl=en_US&authkey=CLrotIQH Book Skeleton, list of chapters & contributers] | |||
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