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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 | |||
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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 Needed
What you need from participants for the session.
Post-Event Participation
How people can get involved with your project after the festival.
Hashtags
Session hash tags specifically for notes on your session, and hash tags specific to your project for promotion.
Relevant links
Don't just do it, let people know what you did! Links to all assets generated during your session, photos, video's, blog posts, sketches, all the artifacts from your session.
EtherPad for the session to take notes and collaborate
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A group of leading data journalists, developers and others are meeting to kickstart work on the handbook. Read more.
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