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Alastair Ball

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I am a London based freelance journalist with a background in data analysis who is looking specialise in data journalism. I'm interested in housing, the environment, online communications and political narratives.
Tuesday, September 1
 

10:00 CEST

Welcome to Dataharvest Digital TBA

10:10 CEST

Finding people - Tools to take you further TBA

14:00 CEST

Data skills kick-off - Q&A TBA
 
Thursday, September 3
 

10:00 CEST

Find connections in company and property registers TBA
 
Thursday, September 10
 

14:00 CEST

Who said text isn't data? Text analysis for data journalists with R TBA
 
Tuesday, September 15
 

11:30 CEST

EU's dirty not-so-little 'secret' TBA

14:00 CEST

Scraping without code: using third-party tools to scrape websites TBA
 
Wednesday, September 16
 

10:00 CEST

"Climate change is fake news" TBA

11:30 CEST

How to track climate crisis deniers on Twitter? TBA

14:00 CEST

How to build a data hypothesis - 1 TBA

15:30 CEST

How to build a data hypothesis - 2 TBA
 
Thursday, September 17
 

10:00 CEST

Data Buffet with the OECD TBA

12:00 CEST

Europe beyond coal – are we there yet? TBA

13:30 CEST

What have we learnt while covering the climate crisis? TBA

17:00 CEST

Bring your 'silly question' related to climate & energy! TBA
 
Tuesday, September 22
 

10:00 CEST

The Shell Papers: Freedom of Information requests are part of the story TBA

14:00 CEST

Data analysis with Pandas on Jupyter - 1 TBA
 
Wednesday, September 23
 

10:00 CEST

How to get access to documents and data in the EU TBA

13:00 CEST

FOI lunch 2: How to deal with data access obstruction? TBA
 
Tuesday, September 29
 

14:00 CEST

Lessons learned extracting data from documents TBA
 
Wednesday, September 30
 

10:00 CEST

Generating story ideas from data: data availability in different parts of Europe TBA
 
Thursday, October 1
 

14:00 CEST

Exploring Networks with Graph Databases TBA

15:30 CEST

Beyond Excel: Why you should learn to code (at least a bit) TBA

17:00 CEST

Worth paying for? TBA
 
Saturday, October 3
 

10:00 CEST

Stats II - Cause and effect - stats as forensic evidence TBA
 
Wednesday, October 7
 

10:00 CEST

From the mine to your mobile - tracking minerals TBA

14:00 CEST

Spreadsheets: The cornerstone of data journalism - 2 TBA
 
Thursday, October 8
 

10:00 CEST

Tracking European weapons in Libya - 1 TBA

11:30 CEST

Tracking European weapons in Libya - 2 TBA

14:00 CEST

Spreadsheets: The cornerstone of data journalism - 3 TBA

17:00 CEST

Tracking stuff with GPS and other gadgets TBA
 
Tuesday, October 13
 

11:30 CEST

Pension funds and investment in fossil fuels: what does the data say? TBA
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

10:00 CEST

Topic-based open networks: the Arena Housing Project and beyond TBA

11:30 CEST

Mapping empty homes across Europe: getting, cleaning up and analysing different kinds of data TBA
 
Thursday, October 15
 

10:00 CEST

Researching the rise of the far right across Europe TBA

14:30 CEST

Automating Osint investigations with Python TBA
 
Monday, October 19
 

14:00 CEST

Size doesn't matter: how independent organisations can learn from each other and collaborate effectively (non-editorial) TBA
 
Tuesday, October 20
 

14:00 CEST

Putting yourself on the map: learn how to map data in QGIS TBA
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

10:00 CEST

How can journalists and independent organisations find opportunities during the coronavirus crisis TBA
 
Tuesday, October 27
 

14:00 CET

Staying sane when dealing with structured data formats: CSV, JSON, XML, XLSX. TBA
 
Tuesday, November 3
 

10:00 CET

Algorithms are here already - we've found some for you

11:30 CET

How to spot algorithms in the wild
 
Tuesday, November 10
 

10:00 CET

Data Buffet with the European Environmental Agency TBA

11:15 CET

Big polluters & wealthy climate deniers: who are the lobbyists in the climate field? TBA
 
Wednesday, November 11
 

10:00 CET

Buy a stove for a farmer, plant a tree: where does your climate compensation money really end up? TBA

13:00 CET

Good intentions, bad execution - green's not always clean TBA
 
Thursday, November 12
 

13:00 CET

Where to look for climate & energy stories next? TBA

17:00 CET

Launch of the Arena Climate Network TBA
 
Tuesday, November 17
 

10:00 CET

Digital security: Protect your communication TBA

14:00 CET

SQL: Take the next step into data journalism - 1
 
Wednesday, November 18
 

14:00 CET

SQL: Take the next step into data journalism - 2
 
Tuesday, November 24
 

10:00 CET

Pandemic buying : dive into the European COVID-19 tenders data
 
Thursday, November 26
 

17:00 CET

What are we looking forward to at Dataharvest 2021? TBA