Event

Thursday 26 September, 16:30 - 19:30h

Data Journalism. Work session (I)

Excel and Google Drive for Journalists

The Data Journalism work sessions aim to be practical meetings with two objectives: to learn about and delve deeper into working with data through workshops, and to present and showcase local projects.

4.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

«Excel and Google Drive for Journalists» Workshop by Gilbert Martínez.

The objective of this workshop is to learn to extract data mixed with blocks of text, filter them and order them into a visual and simple form using Excel. It will show the flexibility of dynamic tables for classifying the information to suit, and present examples of the graphics available on Google Drive.

Gilbert Martínez, economist and web analyst at Sekuenz.

Presentation of Projects: Govern Obert (Concha Catalán), Map of Municipalities of Catalonia (Amparo Moreno, UAB) and atNight (Mar Santamaria, Pablo Martínez and Jordi Bari).

Govern Obert (Open Government) is a project designed to promote the transparency of the Catalan Government. On its website we can find different visualisations of the organisation charts of each department and publish stories. 

Mapa Infoparticip@ assesses whether the information on municipal websites allows any person to find out who is governing and how collective resources are managed, with the aim of promoting improvements. It is a project managed by the Laboratori de Periodisme i Comunicació per la Ciutadania Plural de l’UAB (UAB Laboratory of Journalism and Communication for Plural Citizenship).

atNight is a research project that maps out the more intangible aspects of the contemporary city using digital technologies and Big Data.