The CCCB is one of the centres that will be hosting, this Friday 24 May, the first Data Journalism and Open Data Conference to be held in Spain, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation and set to run from 24to 26 May 2013, in Barcelona and Madrid.
The sessions that will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on 24 May at the CCCB will be broadcast direct via videostreaming; and you can also follow the event via Twitter using the hashtag #jpd13.
Among the speakers at the Conference there will be international and national experts who enjoy major professional recognition, such as data journalist John Burn-Murdoch (The Guardian), who works on the prize-winning project Reading the Riots; computer programmer Manuel Aristarán (La Nación), who developed the independent project Despesa Pública Bahiense (Bahía Blanca Municipality Public Expenditure); investigative journalist Mar Cabra (IRE), data research manager in the investigation into tax havens Offshores and journalist Eduard Martin-Borregón (Data’n Press), promoter of twitterencatalà.org and @resultados20N.
You can follow the conference sessions from the CCCB website and add the streaming code to your website or blog.
The CCCB will also host, on Friday afternoon in Aula1, the BarCamp: a meeting where national and international examples of Data Journalism will be exhibited. TheBarCamp presentations cannot be followed via streaming, but you can find more information about them here. Furthermore, the sessions will continue in Barcelona on 25 and 26 May, with workshops and a hackathon at the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication.
#jpd13on Twitter
Over the days of the conference, the Twitter accounts @CCCBlab and @okfn_spain will be disseminating cases of data journalism and information related with the speakers. While the sessions are taking place, from these accounts we will provide information on timings and highlight the main contents and events for participants. To follow us and take part in the conversation with comments or questions for the speakers, you can use the hashtag #jpd13.
More information on data journalism:
- Karma Peiró “This new current may help the recovery of journalism as a profession”