Data skills for journalists and civil society organisations - School of Data in the Philippines - Day 2

Data skills for journalists and civil society organisations - School of Data in the Philippines - Day 2

By Open Knowledge Foundation

Date and time

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 · 9am - 4pm GMT+1

Location

One Global Place

5th Avenue Corner 25th Street, 28th Floor Bonifacio Global City Taguig City, the Philippines Philippines

Description

Join Open Knowledge for a free training in data skills and open data for CSOs and journalists by School of Data.

Can I attend even if I am not a data expert?

Yes, we would be glad to welcome you! The training is open to all civil society organisations who are interest in learning more about data.

What should I bring?

If possible, please bring a laptop to the training.

Trainers

Sergio Aaraiza is a trainer and programmer at Social Tic and Escuela De Datos. Anders Pedersen is Knowledge Development Lead with School of Data, a project of Open Knowledge.

Partners

This training is made possible thanks to the support of the Partnership for Open Data and the World Bank in the Philippines.

Schedule

Time

Session track basic

Session track advanced

9:30 - 10:00

Introduction to the day

10:00 - 10:45

Next steps for data driven journalism - setting the stage


Case studies of data driven journalism (Intermediate)

10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Planning your data investigation

Introduction to scraping (Intermediate)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Introduction to spreadsheets

Data cleaning with Open Refine (intermediate)

14:30 - 14:45

Coffee

14:45 - 15:45

Introduction to data visualisations

Network Analysis (advanced)

15:45-16:00

Wrap up

Organized by

Open Knowledge is a global non-profit organisation working to advance open knowledge as a design principle.

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