Who? The Centre for Investigative Journalism - advances education for, and public understanding of, investigative journalism, critical inquiry, and in-depth reporting and research What? Summer School – a three day event with talks and practicals running in parallel so you’ll always find something to interest you. Book here. When? 15th – 17th July 2011, starting each day [...]
Posts Tagged ‘events’
Hacks/Hackers London Meetup
Posted: March 23, 2011 in EventsTags: Ben Campbell, churnalism.com, Eureka, events, HacksHackers, journalisted.com, Martin Moore, Matt Curtis, Media Standards Trust, meetup
Who? Hacks/Hackers London What? Meetup When? Wednesday, 23 March at 07:00 PM Where? Artillery Arms 102 Bunhill Row Nr Moorgate, EC1Y 8ND Why? Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust, and Ben Campbell, programmer at the Media Standards Trust, will be talking about Churnalism.com and journalisted.com – the design and creation of media monitoring platforms. They will speak [...]
Open Data Campaigning Camp
Posted: March 17, 2011 in Events, Open Data MovementTags: campaigning, data, events, open data
Who? This is a fringe event to the E-Campaigning Forum run by Fairsay. Rolf Kleef (Open for Change) and Tim Davies (Practical Participation) are co-ordinating the day in a voluntary capacity, with support from Javier Ruiz (Open Rights Group) What? The Open Data Campaigning Camp will immediately follow the annual E-Campaigning Forum (#ECF11), so will be targeted particularly at campaigners [...]
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Glasgow
Posted: March 15, 2011 in EventsTags: datajournalism, events, Glasgow, Hacks and Hackers, ScraperWiki
Who? ScraperWiki What? Hacks and Hackers Hack Day When? Friday, 25 March Where? Viewing Theatre, Pacific Quay, Glasgow Why? Just read up on how #hhhCar went on the ScraperWiki blog. There were schools from space and a catering college with a Food Hygiene Standard rating of 2!
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff #hhhCar
Posted: March 10, 2011 in EventsTags: Cardiff, data, datajournalism, events, HacksHackers, ScraperWiki, Wales
Who? ScraperWiki What? A Hacks and Hackers Hack Day – where journalists (hacks) and developers (hackers) spend the day working with data and scraping away to reveal what lies within. When? Friday, 11th March at 09:00 am Where? ATRiuM Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries University of Glamorgan, Adam Street CF24 2FN Cardiff Why? [...]
The First Data Journalism Course I’ve Found
Posted: January 11, 2011 in EventsTags: data journalism, events, journalism.co.uk, Kevin Anderson
Actually being called Data Journalism that is. Who? It’s from Journalism.co.uk and is headed by Kevin Anderson who I see at most of the events I attend. What? An introduction to data journalism: Taming the numbers When? Wednesday, 19th January at 10:00 am Where? Royal Society of Medicine 1 Wimpole Street London W1G 0AE Why? Says [...]
The web data revolution – a new future for journalism
Posted: November 12, 2010 in Data Journalism, Events, My Data JourneyTags: data, David McCandless, events, FOI, Guardian DataBlog, Heather Brooke, information is beautiful, Richard Pope, ScraperWiki, Simon Rogers
This event hosted by The Guardian. They say: “The web not only gives easy access to billions of statistics on every matter – from MP’s expenses to the location of every public convenience in the UK – but also provides the tools to visualise said information, giving a clarity of voice and an equality of [...]
Frontline Club: Data skills and techniques for journalists
Posted: September 20, 2010 in Data Journalism, Events, My Data JourneyTags: data, events, Frontline club, journalism
Who? Frontline Club What? Find out how top data-driven journalists collate, analyse and present vast amounts of facts and figures into interactive graphics, searchable databases and fascinating charts. When? Wednesday, 22nd September at 07:00 PM Where? 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ Why? What would you do if someone handed you 90,000 unfiltered documents and [...]
Who? Hacks/Hackers London meetup What? Pub social and networking event for those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It’s for hackers exploring technologies to filter and visualize information, and for journalists who use technology to find and tell stories. In the age of information overload, all their work has become [...]
Freedom of Information and Evidence Based Policy Making
Posted: August 16, 2010 in EventsTags: events, FOI, Freedon of Information, Heather Brooke, Westminister skeptics
Who? Heather Brooke award winning freedom of information campaigner and author What? Pub social and talk When? Monday, September 13 at 7:00PM Where? The Monk Exchange Strutton Ground London SW1H 0HW Why? To dig for a story you can go to a stae own mine (open data) where anyone can dig and someone else gets [...]
