Moved in to the new
@FT
offices in Bracken House this morning, a building the company previously occupied from 1959-1989. Last time we moved in the front page looked like this
#1959spaperstoday
So me and
@LeilaHaddou
will be teaching an introduction to code for journalists course in early Feb with
@cijournalism
. Zero prior knowledge required. More details here:
#CIJCourses
Thanks to everyone who came to my session on fuzzy matching! If you didn't get in I'll be doing a repeat at 9am tomorrow, or check out the slides here:
#nicar19
Trust in institutions rests upon accountability, which in turn at least partially rests upon transparency. But sometimes the public data we get means important questions can't be answered. My notebook:
Personal health data is meant to enjoy the strongest legal protection. But are the UK's top health websites sharing this information with advertisers without consent?
@madhumita29
and I took a look
Me and
@LeilaHaddou
will be teaching another introduction to code for journalists in November with
@cijournalism
. Zero prior knowledge required! More details here:
#CIJCourses
Interested in using code to aid your reporting? There's still some spaces left at the introduction to code for journalists
@leilahaddou
and myself are running with
@cijournalism
. Zero previous knowledge required! More details:
#cijcourses
Thanks all that came to
@LeilaHaddou
and my talk at
#eijc18
#dataharvest
on why investigative journalists shouldn't fear automation! 🤖 Our slides are here:
Thanks to everyone that came to my
#gijc19
session on finding stories from the command line!
Slides are here, including links to more information on all the tools:
#gijc2019
How do you humanise a story that doesn't have an obvious face like carbon emissions? You've got find where people are getting screwed right now says
@BrettMmurphy
at
#nicar19
"Schools teach us how to do mathematical calculations, but not how to ask the kinds of questions of data that are encouraged in the humanities" --
@jevinwest
at
#nicar19
Less than a month left till the start of
#CIJSummer
Investigative Journalism Conference. This one is HUGE! We are starting to feel FOMO ourselves. Hear
#Pulitzer
prize winners, discuss the hottest
#investigations
of the year, learn from the best trainers.