EIJC & Dataharvest is an annual, four-day conference, organised by Journalismfund.eu, which brings together journalism heavyweights, data specialists and coding whiz-kids to exchange skills and story ideas. EIJC18 & Dataharvest will take place on Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday morning 27 May 2018. Like last year, place to be is the charming city of Mechelen, 20 minutes outside of Brussels and very easily accessible! Address is Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen at Thomas More University College - Campus De Vest.
Journalismfund.eu vzw is an independent non-profit organisation under Belgian law that aims to promote quality in-depth and cross-border journalism by giving working grants to journalists, by providing networking opportunities and by organising training sessions.
CAR training: "Scrape and analyze tweets with Knime - Are you a tech savvy journalist? Do you understand what APIs and databases are but not how come you still need programming to use them? Learn how to gather and analyze tweets using only logic and KNIME Analytics Platform - an open source software that helps you realize your data analysis fantasies without code. From Twitter to pretty visualization photo via a workflow that makes sense and looks neat. TRAINER: Georgiana Bere "
