Dataharvest 2014: Full Schedule

Investigative journalists, data specialists and coding whiz kids will once again gather in Brussels this year for the fourth edition of Journalismfund.eu’s Dataharvest Conference. Dataharvest+ takes place on Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday morning 11 May 2014.

12:00 CEST

Workshop: Hot topics in the EU now and the coming months, focus on revolving doors

Workshop taking a closer look at the problem of revolving doors in the EU. 2014 will be a year with numerous potential cases in addition to already ongoing cases. Further examples can be expected with the EU’s spreading of expert and specialists’ knowledge in EU-agencies and other EU-institutions.

Moderators

Brigitte Alfter

Managing Editor, Journalismfund.eu

Co-founder and Managing Editor at Journalismfund.eu, a support structure for in-depth, innovative and independent journalism in Europe. Brigitte is a senior Danish-German journalist, she has won multiple awards and is proud that these awards were always granted to her and team members.Having... Read More →

Speakers

Emily O'Reilly

Ombudsman, The European Union

Emily O'Reilly is an author and former journalist and broadcaster who became Ireland's first female Ombudsman in 2003, succeeding Kevin Murphy. On 3 July, 2013, she was voted European Ombudsman by the European Parliament. She was educated at University College Dublin, Trinity Col... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2014 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

CROSS BORDER & EU, workshop

Audience journos

14:00 CEST

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is a participatory way to collect money and to test innovative ideas on the market. While crowdfunding is a well-known and widely used concept for creative and cultural projects as well as technology gadgets, it is yet less know to fund specific projects in media and journalism. However, first successful projects show the potential for media and journalism in Europe. This workshop will provide a short intoduction into crowdfunding in Europe alongside cases and regulatory hurdles, but will also aim at giving participants an opportunity to develop and test their own ideas

Speakers

Oliver Gajda

Executive Director, European Crowdfunding Network

Entrepreneur, Journalist und Lobbyist mit praktischer Erfahrung bei Unternehmensgründungen. Gründungsvorstand und Geschäftsführer des European Crowdfunding Network, Mitgründer von Lendery Ltd. und Slingshot Return GbR sowie Beiratsmitglied des Förderkreises Gründungs-Forschung... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2014 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNALISM, workshop

Audience journos

15:15 CEST

EU Agencies’ network 2014 in dialogue with data journalists

The network of EU agencies under the chairmanship of the Fundamental Rights Agency during 2014 works actively on a datacatalogue. In a workshop at the Dataharvest Friso Roscam Abbing, spokesman at the Fundamental Rights Agency & his team of scientists and tech staff of FRA and other agencies will meet with journalists and tech specialists to figure out the needs in the community. The workshop is open to all.

Moderators

Brigitte Alfter

Managing Editor, Journalismfund.eu

Speakers

Friso Roscam Abbing

Head of the communication department, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

Friso Roscam Abbing has been the head of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights communication department since 2009.

Friedrich Lindenberg

news technologist, data journalist, OCCRP

Friedrich Lindenberg is a software developer and data wrangler working on methods to support effective journalism, activism and civic participation. He works with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) to develop data-driven investigative research techniques and infrastructure. Previously, he was a 2014 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow with Code for Africa, and a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow at Spiegel Online... Read More →

Sebastian Mondial

Investigative Data-Journalist & Trainer, DIE ZEIT

Sebastian Mondial arbeitet für das Investigativ-Team der ZEIT in Berlin.Er hat die Daten-Redaktion dpa regiodata mit aufgebaut und ist Expertefür IT-Sicherheit und Forensik im investigativen Journalismus. Für dasInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) arbeiteteer... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2014 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

DATA, workshop

Audience coders, journos

16:30 CEST

Learning methods from business intelligence

Applying practices from Business Intelligence into Open Data and DDJ – semi-tech talk. Can be followed up by Stefan Urbaneks talk about Data Governance and about Online Analytical Processing.

Speakers

Stefan Urbanek

Data-driven Business Strategist, freshdata.sk

Stefan Urbanek is a data-driven business strategist and partner of FreshData.

Friday May 9, 2014 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

DATA, presentation

Audience journos, coders

10:45 CEST

Social network analysis and other scientific methods in the service of journalism

How to use scientific methods and tools to do (data) journalistic research; social network analysis being one among several useful methods. Examples from data processing (collect and analyse data), text to text extraction (robot journalism) etc. Focus on open source programs we work with (as far as we can), so this presentation is both for journalists and for programmers.

Speakers

Hille van der Kaa

Fontys School of Applied Sciences

Hille van der Kaa (1979) runs the professorship of Media, Interaction and Narration at Fontys School of Applied Sciences and teaches data journalism at Tilburg University. In addition to her academic work, she is a scriptwriter and transmedia developer at her own company De Uitgeeffabriek... Read More →

Saturday May 10, 2014 10:45 - 11:45 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

NEW METHODS, presentation

Audience journos, coders

12:00 CEST

Open Refine - cleaning the really dirty data

No dataset is perfect and without any errors. Especially data from authorities always contains some errors. Before doing stories, we therefore need to check and clean the data. Perhaps the errors hide the best story, or they simply hide everything. Or they are the best story. Open Refine (former Google refine) is a tool to fast identify and clean data on a systematic way. It's easy to start with and have a lot of possibilities later on. It works perfect with spreadsheets. We will take the first step into this tool, so you will learn the basic methods in cleaning.

Speakers

Tommy Kaas

Editor / Partner, Kaas & Mulvad

Tommy Kaas is editor of Kaas & Mulvad (founded 2007), who specializes in finding news and patterns in complex data and presenting the results online. Tommy has many years of experience from a number of Danish media and from training Data Journalism, including as lecturer at the Journalism... Read More →

Nils Mulvad

Partner and CEO, Kaas & Mulvad

Nils Mulvad is currently a partner and CEO at Kaas & Mulvad, and focuses on FOI, data gathering and media development. Mulvad is also a co-founder of the Global Network for Investigative Journalism and other international networks such as Farmsubsidy.org. He was CEO for the Danish... Read More →

Sponsors

In cooperation with Kaas & Mulvad

Kaas & Mulvad

Saturday May 10, 2014 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

DATA, workshop

Audience journos

14:00 CEST

Online research – hands on

You ask the question, you search. In this hands-on workshop you will learn the latest techniques in online research. Paul Myers from the BBC will teach you how to target your search to get the answers you are looking for. He will not only help you find your way to every day tools, he’ll also make you laugh.

Speakers

Paul Myers

Open Source Analyst & Trainer, BBC

Paul has a career in computing and internet research and development that dates back to 1978. He joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. As the internet grew in significance, Paul was able to blend his technical knowledge with the realities of his work in journalism... Read More →

Saturday May 10, 2014 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

DATA, workshop

Audience journos

15:15 CEST

Trafficking of women – a European cross border research

In a recent research Maik Baumgärtner and Lisa Bjurwald present a unique insight into the entire chain of human trafficking: from survivors who tell their haunting stories, to those who take advantage of them – and make millions in profit. In their cross border series published in Germany, Sweden and Belgium they follow victims and try to find out, why perpetrators so rarely are held accountable. Hear about the difficulties and advantages of cooperating across borders. http://www.journalismfund.eu/human-trafficking

Speakers

Maik Baumgärtner

freelance investigative journalist

Maik Baumgärtner is a German journalist and author based in Berlin. He works as a freelance investigative journalist for newspapers, magazines and broadcasters. Baumgärtner specialises in right-wing extremism, racism, discrimination and anti-democratic movements.

Lisa Bjurwald

Lisa Bjurwald is Swedish journalist and author

Lisa Bjurwald is a Swedish journalist and author based in Stockholm. She specialises in international current affairs, political extremism, right-wing populism, terrorism, press freedom and women's issues. In 2010 she was awarded the European Parliament Prize for Journalism (press... Read More →

Saturday May 10, 2014 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
122 http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/venue

CROSS BORDER & EU, presentation

Audience journos