Data Journalism 2014
Data Journalism Dossier
CCCB Lab
Data Journalism is is a discipline that all the main international media outlets have incorporated in recent years, offering readers data visualisation and processing in order to explain the news in a clear and understandable way.
Data Journalism. “Web Scraping” beginners workshop
Workshop with Ben Welsh
As it’s always a good idea to put things into perspective, this session leaps into the international data journalism scene with the journalist Ben Welsh, Director of the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. Ben will offer an insight into the reality of this field at the Los Angeles Times and explain h...
Data Journalism. How does the Los Angeles Times work with Data?
Lecture by Ben Welsh
For years now, data journalism has claimed its place within the editorial offices of many media outlets in the United States, Great Britain and Latin America. This is a good opportunity to talk about how this journey was made by the Los Angeles Times data journalism team: from how the Data Desk began to how it is structured, focusing particularly on specific stories, particularly in the city of Los Angeles, and looking at the way they have approached different cases (election results, crime alerts in L. ...
Data Journalism. Learn to Visualise Twitter and Facebook Data Using Gephi
Workshop with Natalia Mazzote
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. Gephi is an open-code programme that allows you to visualize and consult graphs. It can ...
Data Journalism. Data Archiving
Lecture by Joan Soler
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. Data archiving has to allow a change in the classical view of archives and open them up ...
Data Journalism. Observatori Ciutadà Municipal
Presentation by Enric Pons
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. The Citizens’ Municipal Observatories (OCMs) are formed by groups of people from different ...
Data Journalism. Visualize Data Easily with Tableau
Workshop with Eduard Martín-Borregón
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. Tableau is a tool for the visualisation of data in maps and graphs. During the workshop, ...
Data Journalism. Google Fusion Tables Advanced
Workshop with Antonio Delgado
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. This practical workshop shows us how to personalise maps developed with Google Fusion Tables, ...
Data Journalism. Acuerdo
Presentation by Idoia Sota
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. The digital publication Acuerdo is a journalism laboratory situated between Madrid and London. ...
Data Journalism. Ivàlua: Evaluating the impact of public policies
Presentation by David Casado and Federico Todeschini
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. Ivàlua (Catalan Institute for Public Policy Evaluation) is a public consortium whose mission is the promotion of the evaluation of public policies and programmes of the third sector in order to improve their design and effectiveness. ...
Data Journalism. Land Quest
Presentation by Eduard Martín Borregón
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. Through data journalism, it is possible to map flows of money of the private sector and ...
Data Journalism. Visual: the Idescat data visualisation solution
Workshop with Xavier Badosa
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. Visual is the open code solution developed by the Institute of Statistics ...
Data Journalism. Data Visualisation with Chicas poderosas
Lecture by Mariana Santos
Lecture “Data Visualisation with Chicas poderosas”, with Mariana Santos. The future of journalism is digital. The international programme “Chicas poderosas” aims to promote learning by women journalists in news teams in Latin America on how to use the ...
Data Journalism. Data: beyond journalism
Debate with Josep Perelló, Pablo Martínez, Joan Soler and Lurdes Muñoz
Debate “Data: beyond journalism”, with Josep Perelló (Oficina de Ciència Ciutadana de Barcelona), Pablo Martinez (AtNight), Joan Soler (Arxiu de Terrassa) and Lurdes Muñoz (PSC). The avalanche of data is present in our lives and increasing numbers ...
Data Journalism. Journalist, don’t be afraid to write code
Lecture by Nicola Hughes
Lecture: “Journalist, don’t be afraid to write code”, with Nicola Hughes (The Times). There are journalists who go beyond telling stories and who learn to write code. Nicola Hughes is one of them; she works as a programmer and data journalist on the British ...
Data Journalism. MeetUp Data + Moritz
Case Presentations
MeetUp Data + Moritz. Short presentations of different local data journalism cases. Every seven minutes, meet the journalists, programmers and designers who are investigating and visualising data. A good moment for networking, while having a beer! Projects: Govern Obert (Concha Catalán), Map...
Data Journalism. Quién manda, poniendo cara a los que manejan el cotarro
Who’s in Charge, the latest project by Civio, is a an open map of power in Spain that is documented down to the last millimetre. Who’s in Charge is, furthermore, an exercise in data journalism. The key to its functioning lies in the combination of technology and journalism, starting ...
Data Journalism. This is how we do data journalism in Spain
Round Table with Jesús Escudero and Juan Francisco Caro
Round table “This is how we do data journalism in Spain”, with Jesús Escudero (El Confidencial) and Juan Francisco Caro (Blog "Extremadura en datos").Data journalism is still a new discipline in Spain, but it is no longer an exception. Freelance journalists ...
Data Journalism. Journalists and programmers working together
Debate with Gabriela Rodríguez and Mar Cabra
Debate “Journalists and programmers working together”, with Gabriela Rodríguez (Knight-Mozilla Foundation) and Mar Cabra (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). Gabriela Rodríguez and Mar Cabra talk about how these two professional ...
Interview with Nicola Hughes, Mar Cabra, Mariana Santos, Mar Santamaría and Gabriela Rodriguez
II Data Journalism and Open Data Conference
We interview Nicola Hughes, Mar Cabra, Mariana Santos, Mar Santamaría and Gabriela Rodríguez to pick their brains about the new data journalism and open data trends. This conversation among data professionals is a reflection on the Cambrian age of journalism and the qualities that will survive in this new period, on the role of the Internet in climate change and the situation of women in this context. ...
The Cambrian Age of Journalism
Karma Peiró
When blogger Nate Silver predicted before the last American elections that Obama had a 90.9% chance of defeating the ex-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, he came under fire from the country’s leading newspapers. The young statistician, then aged 32, and with no weight at all [...]
Data Journalism. Errors of Data Journalism. The Colibrí Project
Lecture by Diego Pascual
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. The Colibri Project is a citizens’ initiative that aims to act as a bridge between ...
Data Journalism. How to decipher data from statistics portals
Workshop with Xavier Badosa
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. The aim of this workshop is to present possibilities for the reuse of data from an official ...
Data Journalism. Workshop on Working with Geospatial Data
Workshop with Óscar Marín
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. The workshop begun with an introduction to the different geographical formats and the most ...
Data Journalism. Datanalysis15M
Presentation by Juan Linares
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. Datanalysis15M is a project that studies how the 15-M movement altered ...
Data Journalism. Where can we find public data, in what format, and how often are they published?
Lecture by Àngels Llorens
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. Àngels Llorens shows us how to locate data in the sphere of statistical ...
Data Journalism. Good practices in information visualisation
Workshop with Víctor Pascual
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. Víctor Pascual focused on common errors and explained new techniques. ...