Name: Pre Dataharvest Hackathon: Public tender data / European election / Farmsubsidies
Start: 2014-05-08T10:00:00+0200
End: 2014-05-08T18:00:00+0200

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.

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

Focus this year: Public tenders in the EU – tracking EU tax payers’ money is spent. Data for covering the EP election. And of course Farmsubsidy data. Before the Dataharvest, we will spend a day digging deep into the EU’s data. In a hands-on event addressed at both coders and journalists, we’ll work in small teams to extract fresh data from EU institutions, make visualizations and find stories worth telling. In the run-up to the EU elections later in the month, we’ll work on two topic streams: During the Dataharvest+ Conference journalists and programmers will cooperate on developing stories.

Moderators

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 →

Speakers

Annabel Church

freelance developer

Annabel is a freelance developer who was a Knight-Mozilla 2013 OpenNews Fellow at ZeitOnline, and previously worked building tools for journalists at the Guardian. She helps to build a community at the intersection between Journalism and technology by co-organising Hacks and... Read More →

Ioana Cristea

Coder, The Black Sea publishing platform

Self-trained as web platforms coder, she co-founded a free software developing company and got involved in various tech projects within The Sponge portfolio. The most recent projects count The Black Sea publishing platform (still in development) and a PHP framework (still in development / standardization / documentation process... Read More →

Holger Drewes

Web developer

Holger Drewes is a Web developer, living in Berlin and member of Open Knowledge Foundation.

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 →

Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed

Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →

Stefan Urbanek

Data-driven Business Strategist, freshdata.sk

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

Stefan Wehrmeyer

FragDenStaat.de / OKFN De

Stefan is an investigative technologist and works for the German FOI platform FragDenStaat.de. He also tries to keep the farmsubsidy.org scrapers and website running.

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