This year's annual Spring Camp on Data Journalism, organised by Dr Philippe BlanchardLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Associate Professor, Warwick Politics and International Studies Department), will take place between,

Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 May 2021. You can register:

For the Full 2-day eventLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window or for Day 1 onlyLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.

The exact timings of the programme are to be confirmed but the start and finish times will be 10:00 - 16:00 for Day 1 and 09:30 - 16:00 for Day 2.

Day 1

On Day 1 experts will give presentations on various topics related to data journalism. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion at the end of each session.

Programme for the day

10:00-11:00 Martin Stabe: How the covid pandemic pushed us to rethink the skills for data journalism

11:00-12:00 Tijana Blagojev: Open Data and Journalism in Serbia: Developing a Public Database on Government Funding of Media

14:00-15:00 Leila Haddou: How data and tech are aiding investigative journalism

15:00-16:00 Paul Lynch: How the BBC Shared Data Unit interrogates public data

Speakers:

Martin StabeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, data editor at the Financial Times. Martin leads a team of data journalists, designers and coders responsible for developing new data-led digital storytelling formats. He graduated from the University of Sussex, the London School of Economics and City, University of London.

Tijana BlagojevLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Programme Assistant at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Tijana is in charge of supporting free journalism and training journalists in Eastern Europe. She is an an alumna of the PAIS Master's in Politics, Big Data and Quantitative MethodsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.

Leila HaddouLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, freelance data trainer, former data journalism editor for The Times and Sunday Times, and investigations correspondent at The Financial Times. Leila is an LSE and City, University of London graduate.

Paul LynchLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Data Journalist in the BBC Shared Data Unit. Paul has won multiple awards for his investigations. He graduated at De Montfort University and the University of Derby.

Day 2

9.30 – 16.00

Appealing visualizations are increasingly used in media outlets, such as The Economist and The New York Times. How do we decide how to visualize information in the most effective way? What makes these visualizations so powerful or, sometimes, misleading? This workshop introduces participants to the key principles and practices of data visualization. Participants will learn how to use visual tools to present and support an argument using R (more specifically, the ggplot2 library). In doing so, participants will learn not only how to produce visualizations but also how to read them and spot flaws (whether intentional or not) that distorts information in the data.

Dr Jessica Di SalvatoreLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Associate Professor, Warwick Politics and International Studies Department).