The European Data and Computational Journalism conference, which aims to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data Journalism will be held in UCD on 6th and 7th July.
The conference will bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and information, data, social and computer sciences to facilitate a multidisciplinary discussion on Data Journalism. This will be followed by a half-day Introduction to Data Journalism workshop and the Computational and Data Journalism unconference on the 7th July.
Keynote talks will be delivered by industry leaders on the real world practice of Data and Computational Journalism. Speakers include; Ciara Guibourg, a data analyst with the Google Trends team in London who works with journalists from across Europe on a range of collaborative projects involving data journalism and visualization; Conor Ryan, a journalist with the RTÉ Investigations Unit and author of the investigative book Stallions and Power: The Scandals of the Irish National Stud; Megan Lucero, formerly the Data Editor at The Times and The Sunday Times and now the Director of the Bureau Local, a unique national hub of journalists and technologists working together to investigate stories that matter in communities across the UK.
The conference is being co-organised by Bahareh Heravi, an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, where she is the Postgraduate Director and the Director of the new Data Journalism certification programme, commencing in September 2017.
The conference is being sponsored by Google News Labs and RTÉ.
Find out more about the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference here.
