Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investgative Journalism...

Attending this event?

Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

Join us for networking, learning, sharing and fun!

9:30am CEST

Check-in and Coffee Media forum

10:00am CEST

Hackday (special ticket needed) 1.16 Masterclass: Deep dive into scientific methods in journalism (Masterclass ticket needed) 1.14 Masterclass: OSINT – methods and techniques (Masterclass ticket needed) 3.02 Masterclass: Your rights to information across borders (Masterclass ticket needed) 3.05

12:00pm CEST

Lunch Media forum

1:00pm CEST

Hackday (special ticket needed) 1.16 Masterclass: Deep dive into scientific methods in journalism (Masterclass ticket needed) 1.14 Masterclass: OSINT – methods and techniques (Masterclass ticket needed) 3.02 Masterclass: Your rights to information across borders (Masterclass ticket needed) 3.05

9:00am CEST

Check-in and Coffee Media forum

10:00am CEST

Opening of the conference Media forum

10:30am CEST

Networking welcome TBA

12:00pm CEST

Lunch TBA

1:15pm CEST

How to verify leak data - A checklist approach Aula Donché - 1.15 Learn programming: Python basics 2.08 Investigating datasets to better understand AI Aula 0.10 Who funds Europe's political parties? We have the data 1.14 Ah Mapbox, here we go again! How to make Mapbox work with large datasets 2.09 Are school test results correlated with family income? Working on relational statistics in Excel 2.10 Crack the Treasure Trove – Strategic Use of FOI Requests in Cross-Border Investigations 3.04 Investigating the past - lessons from the Nazi era 1.16 How to find people with minimal clues 1.13 PerencoFiles : How to investigate an unlisted company in open source 3.02 Researching the lobbyists: who is shaping the future of EU policy-making? 3.05 Mental health at risk - How to mitigate the burden for journalists and newsrooms by peer support 2.02

2:15pm CEST

Coffee break TBA

3:00pm CEST

Lightning Talks Aula Donché - 1.15 Predator Files: How European companies supplied dictators cyber-surveillance tools for more than a decade 3.02 Using data journalism for local stories: what have we learnt? 2.02 Beyond Boundaries: Create a custom map in Flourish 2.08 Distrust your Data 2.09 Mastering SQL Basics: Moving Beyond Spreadsheets for Large Datasets 2.09 How to turn the public value of independent media into financial value 3.04 Googling for nerds 1.13 Network Analysis for Telegram Channels Aula 0.10 Using Wikipedia correctly 3.05 Arena Food and Water Network - informal networking meeting Media room Video journalling: powerful tool for video investigative reporting (on a shoestring budget) 2.03

4:00pm CEST

Coffee break TBA

4:45pm CEST

Can you trust your MEP? Learn how to investigate EU officials 3.02 AI-assisted journalism - case studies from the Guardian Aula 0.10 Fossil Fuel Detectives 3.05 Right Under Your Nose: How to Find Data Stories in Open Sources 1.14 Exploring AI: Extracting named entities with LLM 2.08 Mastering SQL for Large Datasets: Joining Tables 2.09 Tracking changes with GitHub Actions 2.09 Rethinking the newsroom without a hierarchy 3.09 For sale: you. A simple method to expose online data breaches 1.16 Investigations from above: How to use satellite imagery for investigative journalism Aula 1.13 Local data stories with a European perspective - Network meeting with CORRECTIV.Europe Media room Has the Anglo approach colonised journalism? 3.04

6:30pm CEST

Dataharvest Ultimate Quiz and Game Night Media forum

9:00am CEST

Coffee TBA

9:30am CEST

Tapping around the blackbox: How to investigate Tech's impact on society Aula Donché - 1.15 How a Swiss company spied across Europe on behalf of the UAE state 3.02 How to use European air pollution data to hold companies accountable 1.16 Geo-Investigations: Using QGIS to Investigate Environmental Impacts 2.09 Learn programming: Getting started with R 2.08 Using SQL To Query For Anomalies/Deviations in Georgia Trade Data 2.10 Finding the needle in the haystack: How to investigate companies with OSINT data? Aula 0.10 How to track industry bias on research 3.04 Investigating NGOs 101 3.05 Digital self-defence - 11 steps to your secure computer 2.02 Tackling online hate and smear campaigns: self-dox yourself 2.03 How to translate a very technical EU story into an impact-investigation accessible for everyone 1.14

10:45am CEST

Coffee break TBA

11:15am CEST

How to track planes online (and fast) Aula Donché - 1.15 Exploring AI: Ethical AI - How to investigate algorithms Aula 0.10 Cyprus Confidential: Unmasking sanction evaders 3.02 How the bad guys think: Decoding the Disinformation Playbook 1.16 Looking in The Mirror: How to Navigate Power Dynamics within Cross-border Teams 3.04 Data wrangling with R 2.08 Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and evade anti-scraping systems 2.10 The art of scrollytelling - dynamic map-based storytelling for all 2.09 The EU is quiet-quitting Freedom of Information. What can we do about it? 3.09 How (and why) to investigate freezing of assets in the EU (without leaks) 3.05 From zero to security hero in one hour and fifteen minutes 2.03

12:30pm CEST

Lunch TBA

1:45pm CEST

Exploring AI: How (not) to use LLMs for investigative journalism Aula 0.10 #Ground Control: Investigating land ownership in European cities 3.09 Deforestation Inc: How ICIJ investigated greenwashing in the forestry sector 1.14 Different faces of human trafficking - best tips to find the story, the sources and the victims 3.05 Clean data like a pro with OpenRefine 2.09 Exploring AI: So, you wanna talk with your documents using AI? 2.08 Fact-checkable Spreadsheets 2.10 17 ways to measure impact : how to listen to the echos of your investigations 2.02 Everything is classified. How to investigate when the state conceals all crucial data? 3.04 Tracking ships - DIY edition Aula Donché - 1.15 FOI journalists in Europe, unite! Media room

3:00pm CEST

Coffee break TBA

3:30pm CEST

From journalist to manager - what do you need to learn? 3.04 Exploring AI: How Big Tech watered down the AI Act 3.02 How to be an investigations editor 3.05 Roundtable for data educators - inspiration and skill sharing 2.03 DuckDB for quick data manipulation 2.08 Getting the data behind websites (and what are ‘undocumented APIs’?) 2.09 How to build Telegram bot for needs of a journalist 2.1 Let's investigate urban challenges! Networking meeting with the Urban Journalism Network Media room Stay open source and encrypted: Signal as an editorial tool 2.02 What makes a good map? (Not a new tool) 1.16

4:30pm CEST

Coffee break TBA

5:15pm CEST

Exploring AI: Automated Criminal Justice: Digging into Policing Algorithms Aula Donché - 1.15 Decoding the Climate: A Journalist's Guide to Understanding Climate Data 1.14 Finding fires using Python&Satellite 2.02 From grassroots to global impact: How to professionalise your data work 3.05 Data cleaning on steroids: regex to the rescue 2.08 Exploring AI: I give you a URL and you give me back LEGO bricks - OR - How to use an LLM to write your first scraper 2.09 Our Town: data journalism to help you find untold stories about your community 3.09 How to Investigate Shipwrecks - a deep dive into digital forensic techniques Aula 0.10 Arena Labour Network - informal networking meeting Media room

9:00am CEST

Coffee Media forum

9:30am CEST

Follow the hacker's footprint to a good story Aula Donché - 1.15 Automated copy pasting: your first python scraper 2.10 Data visualisations with R 2.09 Dataiku - one tool to master it all 2.08 Beyond Nicotine: Unmasking Big Tobacco profiting from medical products 1.14 Let's find oil and gas permits in protected areas: How to use QGIS to find (and fact-check) stories 1.16

10:45am CEST

Coffee break Media forum

11:15am CEST

How to investigate public trade flow data with Comext 1.14 How to hold fossil fuel facilitators accountable Aula Donché - 1.15 Building your first scrollytelling data visualization TBA Oh no I shut my laptop! Running your app/scraper reliably in the cloud TBA Making the most of dorking to track crooks in sport 3.05

12:45pm CEST

Goodbye - see you next year! Media forum