Roundtable sessions
A round table does not have a prepared programme. The idea is that people interested in trans-national cooperation on a particular topic can meet in an informal atmosphere. Each round table will have a moderator. Wobbing Moderator: Brigitte Alfter Education Moderator: Annet Daems Science Moderator: Peter Aldhous Sustainable Investigative Journalism Moderator: Stefano Valentino
Programme schedule
European Investigative Journalism Conference 2008 – programme schedule Thursday November 20st 03.00 PM Parliament tour Friday November 21st The opening session (plenary session) 09.30 AM – Registration, coffee and tea in the Olympia-Bourse Ballroom of the Marriott Brussels Hotel. 10.30 AM – Welcome address by VVOJ-president Margo Smit 10.40 AM – Keynote speech by EU-Commissioner […]
Caspio Bridge® – demonstration
Caspio is provider of the leading do-it-yourself database platform for rapid web application creation and publishing without programming. Hundreds of new organizations around the globe use Caspio Bridge on a daily basis to publish interactive databases and to do map mashups. Attendees to this panel will learn how to leverage the Caspio Bridge framework in […]
Connecting the dots
Introduction to Microsoft Access More and more journalists discover the possibilities of doing their own data analysis, from the very simple to pretty advanced. Usually, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice. That is a good choice, because Excel is available on most office computers, is easy to learn and quite powerful for those who […]
Online Polling
Journalists are always very keen to use data in news stories. Indeed, it is thanks to statistical information that political predictions and dramatic statements about the number and motives of ‘binge drinkers’ seem to make sense. However, two problems exist when using statistical information in news articles. The first one is the problem of misinterpretation. […]
Elke Van Hoof
News on a map
All politics is local, a politician once said. All journalism is local aswell. But how do you put the news on a map, so readers can see how the news affect their lives? Applications like MapInfo and ArcView give you the oppurtunity to put all kinds of data on a map. In which constituencies did […]
Put it in a box
Microsoft Excel Basics This hands-on workshop will offer beginning level instruction in this popular spreadsheet program. Participants will learn how to move around a worksheet, enter and edit labels and values, use AutoFill, add and remove rows and columns, use simple formulas, create graphs and charts and enhance a worksheet. Starting with the basics, and […]
Webscraping
Lots of websites contain information that can be of great value to you as a journalist. But this information might change every day, and therefore it is impossible to keep track of it by hand. That’s why we let the computer do our work for us. This is called webscraping. At NRC Handelsblad, I have […]
Data mining
The web contains many interesting listst and databases. Grab them on your hard disk, in order to clean, calculate and analyse. Trainer: Luuk Sengers
