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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. 

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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.
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Saturday, May 26 • 9:00am - 10:15am
Python training V

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CAR training: Scraping websites and services using requests to save off the HTML files locally and then BeautifulSoup to extract the relevant information. And, finally, pickle, to efficiently store the dictioanaries you've created. We'll attempt at scraping all https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com work from her website and further examples anybody wants to bring along.

Speakers
avatar for Barnaby Skinner

Barnaby Skinner

Head of Data Journalism, Tamedia
Studying History in Basel, I focused on the Industrial Revolution and its various social and economic impacts. As a journalist, I have shifted my attention to the Digital Revolution. I think and write in both German and English and I manage the datajournalistic endeavours at the leading... Read More →


Saturday May 26, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am CEST
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