II Data Journalism and Open Data Conference

Journalist, don’t be afraid to write code

By Nicola Huges (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 daily newspaper The Times.

This is how we do data journalism in Spain

By 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 are presenting interesting projects that increasingly attract the attention of the media. We talk about all this with different professionals and analyse how this discipline is evolving.

Journalists and programmers working together

By Gabriela Rodríguez (Knight-Mozilla Foundation) and Mar Cabra (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists).

Gabriela Rodríguez and Mar Cabra talk about how these two professional profiles, that of journalist and that of programmer, form a team in the case of data journalism, how they coordinate and organise themselves throughout the process.

Data Visualisation with Chicas poderosas

By 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 necessary tools to make the most of data journalism and investigations. Mariana Santos talks about the techniques, the tools, and the processes of data visualisation.

Data: beyond journalism

By 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 of professionals are tackling it and presenting new forms of communicating via visualisations, mobile apps and reports. This session look at the way in which other professions use data and for what purposes.

Who’s in charge, putting a face to the people who run the show

By Eva Belmonte (CIVIO).

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 with the extraction of information. They explain to us how and why it has been done.

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), Mapa InfoParticip@ (Amparo Moreno i Miquel Borràs), Fuga2 (Eli Vivas), AtNight (Mar Santamaria i Pablo Martínez), Data’n Press (Edu Martín Borregón), Projecte Colibrí (Diego Pascual), Historias de gasto (Concha Catalán), Oficina Ciencia Ciudadana (Josep Perelló), Timeline15M (Juan Linares), Vist al DOCG (Martín González), desideDatum (Marc Garriga), Observatoris Ciutadans Municipals (Enric Pons), desideDatum (Marc Garriga),Vidas Contadas (Alberto Labarga) and Partit Obert (Lourdes Muñoz).