data driven journalism – ScraperWiki https://blog.scraperwiki.com Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:10:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 58264007 International Data Journalism Awards….deadline fast approaching..(10th April 2012) https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/international-data-journalism-awards-deadline-fast-approaching-10th-april-2012/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:00:29 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216688 Everybody is talking and trying to do ‘data journalism’ and the first ever International Data Journalism Awards have been established to recognise the huge effort that people are making in this field.  It’s a great opportunity to showcase your work.  Backed by Google, the prizes are generous at €45,000 (over $55,000) to six winners and the process is being managed by Global Editors

The main objectives are to a) Contribute to setting high standards and highlighting the best practices in data journalism and b) Demonstrate the value of data journalism among editors and media executives.

There are three categories :-

  1. Data-driven investigative journalism
  2. Data visualisation & storytelling
  3. Data-driven applications

The competition is open to media companies, non-profit organisations, freelancers and individuals. Applicants are welcome to submit their best data journalism projects before 10 April 2012 at http://datajournalismawards.org/ submit-your-work/.

To find out more about the competition and how to apply check out  datajournalismawards.org.  If you have any questions about the competition get in touch with the lovely Liliana Bounegru, DJA Coordinator (bounegru [at] ejc [dot] net). Liliana works at the European Journalism Centre

]]> 758216688 Happy New Year and Happy New York! https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/01/happy-new-year-and-happy-new-york/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:32:42 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216011 We are really pleased to announce that we will be hosting our very first US two day Journalism Data Camp event in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and supported by the Knight Foundation on February 3rd and 4th 2012.

We have been working with Emily Bell @emilybell, Director of the Tow Center and Susan McGregor @SusanEMcG, Assistant Professor at the Columbia J School to plan the event. The main objective is to liberate and use New York data for the purposes of keeping business and power accountable.

After a short introduction on the first day, we will split the event into three parallel streams; journalism data projects; liberating New York data; and ‘learn to scrape’. We plan to inject some fun by running a derby for the project stream and also by awarding prizes in all of the streams.  We hope to make the event engaging and enjoyable.

We need journalists, media professionals, students of journalism, political science or  information technology, coders, statisticians and public data boffs to dig up the data!

Please pick a stream and sign-up to help us to make New York a data driven city!

Our thanks to Columbia University, Civic Commons, The New York Times, and CUNY for allowing us to use their premises as we sojourned in the big apple

Zarino has created a map with our US events which we will update with additional events as we add locations. https://scraperwiki.com/events/

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