II Data Journalism and Open Data Conference
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. 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 ...
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. 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...
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. ...
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 ...
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 [...]