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Dataharvest/EIJC, the European Investigative and Data Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, is the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. Dataharvest/EIJC15 will take place on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday morning 10 May 2015, with a pre-conference Hackaton on Thursday 7 May. Like the previous years, the conference will take place in the centre of Brussels.
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Saturday, May 9 • 12:00 - 13:00
Beyond spreadsheet: Learn how to scrape and manage data when Excel isn't enough

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Point-and-click tools only go so far. Using you computer to its full power will let you find, clean and analyze data in a breeze. In this workshop, you will learn how to create a simple scraper in Python, how to parse XML and JSON data and how to manage your data files from the command line. You will need to have admin privileges on your laptop. Windows users: Install Cygwin before.

http://www.jplusplus.org/en/paris-berlin/
Speakers
avatar for Anne-Lise Bouyer

Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
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Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Data-driven journalist, trainer & author.Interested in pandas, D3, scraping, climate and the history of cooking.
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Pierre Romera

Chief Technology Officer, ICIJ, France
Pierre Romera has been Chief Technology Officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 2017. He manages a team working on the platforms that enabled more than hundreds journalists to collaborate on the Pandora Papers, the Uber Files, the FinCEN Files... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2015 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
1.26 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
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