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.
New/s/leak is a new tool, which can extract newsworthy stories from large textual datasets. With the help of text mining, the software extracts named entities, key terms and time expressions. The system has an intuitive web-based user interface based on network visualisation combined with data exploration methods and various search and faceting mechanisms. Learn what this open-source tool can do. http://www.newsleak.io/
