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Dataharvest 2014

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.

10:00 CEST

Pre Dataharvest Hackathon: Public tender data / European election / Farmsubsidies 125

11:00 CEST

Security Zone (introduction to privacy / information security concepts & tools) 106

12:00 CEST

Juggling the intersection of journalism, design and technology 121 Scraping with Helium 123 Search the ICIJ tax haven database (and learn to use Excel Fuzzy Lookup) 126 Security Zone 106

14:00 CEST

EU Agencies’ network 2014 present overview of data by agencies 121 Security Zone 106 The Black Sea Project 123

15:15 CEST

Design thinking techniques 119 EU Agencies’ network 2014 in dialogue with data journalists 122 Hadoop - big data crunching tool 107 Security Zone 106

16:30 CEST

Learning methods from business intelligence 122 Mapping development money 123 The Migrants Files (en francais) 119 Visualisation with Google Fusion 126

09:30 CEST

Ask Your Service 123 Security Zone (1 on 1 practical lab - bring your own laptop) 105 Journos and coders cooperating 124

10:45 CEST

Data Governance – why and how? 107 Online research – investigations on social media 119 Scraping data and making them useful for journalists 106 Security Zone (introduction to privacy / information security concepts & tools) 105

12:00 CEST

Online Analytical Processing 107 Open Refine - cleaning the really dirty data 122 Security Zone 105 Speed inspiration from two national data stories: Keeping an eye on police reform / keeping an eye on housing prices 121 The Migrants Files (English) 119

14:00 CEST

Finding stories in spreadsheets 106 Online research – hands on 122 Security Zone 105 Taking scraping to the next level 126

15:15 CEST

Null CTRL/Zero CTRL 121 Protection of sources and how to protect whistleblowers 124

09:00 CEST

Crash course Excel - for beginners 104 Online research for beginners I 106 Search the ICIJ tax haven database (and learn to use Excel Fuzzy Lookup) 102 Security Zone (1 on 1 practical lab - bring your own laptop) 105

10:35 CEST

Introduction to privacy and encryption 104 Online research for beginners II 106