Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

We've all been there. It's been weeks or months since we did the analysis. It's almost publication time and the story has reached the fact-checking stage. If you've ever worked with OCCRP, you know how rigorous this process can be. Can you explain every number? Maybe you used filters, but have long since undone and redone them? What did you do exactly? Why did you do it? What assumptions did you make? Participants will learn concrete ways of making your spreadsheets self-documenting and ready for the fact-checking stage - assuring a better experience for everyone involved! Familiarity with spreadsheets is ideal, but the concepts we will cover apply to any data analysis for investigative journalism. We'll be using Google Sheets.