Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

Join us for four days of inspiration, learning and networking!

09:00 CEST

Coffee Cafeteria

09:30 CEST

Mapping Q-Anon in Europe, on Telegram and beyond C2.07Riccardo Coluccini • Justin-Casimir Braun Tracking wildlife crime in your country C2.23Zeynep Sentek • Rudi Bressa How to fact-check your data work for an investigative piece? C2.25Karrie Kehoe • Jelena Cosic • Caroline Desprat Building a (business) case on data C2.21Sanne Schim van der Loeff • Sanne Breimer • Malte Werner The human aspect of FOI C2.15Tarjei Leer-Salvesen Follow the Money of European political parties Aula 1Nathan Niedermeier • Adriana Homolová • Lise Witteman Forever Pollution Project: how to practice “peer-reviewed” journalism C2.01Catharina Felke • Eurydice Bersi • Stéphane Horel • Raphaëlle Aubert Save safely! Secure documentation of your web findings C2.05Albrecht Ude Working for us: Human trafficking and exploitation in Europe C2.17Geesje van Haren • Ismail Einashe • Maria Delaney We have been SLAPPed! C2.28Anuška Delić • Daniel Simons • Danuta Pawłowska • Thodoris Chondrogiannos • Steven Vanden Bussche How to communicate data so people understand you C2.02Federico Caruso • Elisabetta Tola • Gianna-Carina Grün • Catherine André Building your first scrollytelling data visualization C3.15Krisztián Szabó • Rui Barros How to bring structure to unstructured documents without coding C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Victoria Gaunitz Personalising the story: how to generate a 100-page website from one dataset using R C3.11Paul Bradshaw • Paul Lynch

10:30 CEST

Journalism fair - meet the organisations that support and promote journalism

10:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

11:15 CEST

Töpfer Stiftung (closed meeting) C2.25 Suspicion machines: welfare surveillance algorithms revealed Aula 1Gabriel Geiger • Romy van Dijk • Justin-Casimir Braun • Evaline Schot Futureproof your investigation with the whole team C2.23Jonathan Stoneman • Semir Mujkić Missing data: An updated map of femicides in Europe C2.07Maria Álvarez del Vayo • Thanasis Troboukis • Janine Louloudi How to balance costs and (digital) safety C2.21Hisham Almiraat Three years of European housing investigation: A guide C2.01Sotiris Sideris • Hendrik Lehmann • Gaby Khazalová Scrutinising EU funds in your country: how to find the data you need C2.05Zoltán Sipos • Daiva Repečkaitė Labour in Europe - research on the ground and in the EU institutions C2.17Eurydice Bersi • Alina Lippegaus • Adina Florea Arena Food & Water meeting: Let’s talk about future investigations! C2.15Sarah Pilz • Brigitte Alfter • Zeynep Sentek How to avoid SLAPP lawsuits – and what to do if you get them anyway C2.28Daniel Simons • Emma Prest • Rebecca Bonello Ghio A simple scraper using Python C3.15Karrie Kehoe • Alesya Marokhovskaya Introduction to R and RStudio C3.11Robert Gebeloff • Luuk Sengers Spreadsheets: the basics C3.04Pamela Duncan • Carmen Aguilar Garcia

12:30 CEST

Lunch Cafeteria

13:30 CEST

Scraping with R C3.11Robert Gebeloff • Jonathan Stoneman • Luuk Sengers How to fund journalism better C2.01Daniela White • Ebru Akgun • Abhijit Das • Willem Lenders Managing chaos: Huge leaks, huge headaches C2.25Emma Prest • Jelena Cosic • Jan Strozyk • Paulo Pena Hackday findings: The inequalities of work and wage C2.05Sarah Pilz • Alexander Sokoler Rural Observatory: let´s look into the EU data on rural areas (and find stories) C2.23Jose Miguel Calatayud • Carla Lostrangio Doing it all - combining skills in (small) teams C2.21Sanne Schim van der Loeff • Steffen Kühne • Dan Kåre Engebretsen • Thomas Muntz Europe's Missing Emails C2.02Staffan Dahllöf • Hans-Martin Tillack • Peter Teffer Friend or foe: using AI as an investigative tool Aula 2Carmen Aguilar Garcia • Joseph Smith • Albrecht Ude • Alexander Fanta • Paul Bradshaw • Irene Larraz How to find sources, offline and online C2.15Zeynep Sentek • Nicola Naber • Tatev Hovhannisyan • Geesje van Haren How to work with traumatized sources C2.07Gavin Rees • Sanne Terlingen • Ismail Einashe Researching the arms lobby C2.28Bram Vranken On the ground – learning from a workers’ aid group in Germany C2.17Brigitte Alfter • Alina Lippegaus Network analysis: make sense of all that data you have C3.15Oksana Stavniichuk • Lasse Edfast Spreadsheets: Advanced formulas C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Pamela Duncan

14:00 CEST

Individual safety consultations 2 TBAJake Charles Rees • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin

14:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

15:15 CEST

Breaking out of the silos – can we? C2.28Simon Bowers • Jelena Cosic • Stefan Candea • Harald Schumann • Jan Strozyk The coordinator - the unsung hero of cross-border collaborations C2.07Jose Miguel Calatayud • Hazel Sheffield • Elena Ledda • Zeynep Sentek The Devil in the Data - researching sports's data and betting industry C2.15Jonathan Stoneman • Philippe Auclair The non-voter time bomb: mapping voter abstention in Europe C2.01Luciana Maruta • Andrea Nelson Mauro Engaging with hard-to-reach communities C2.21Lucas Batt • Zoltán Sipos • Sofia da Palma Rodrigues • Maria Delaney Researching alt-right and conservative groups online: blueprints for an investigation C2.23Daiva Repečkaitė • Anna Gielewska Googling for nerds C2.05Marcus Lindemann The future of work in the digital age: Dark sci-fi utopia on its way to become reality? C2.17Charles Boutaud • Matea Grgurinović • Miriam Lenz From reporter to subject of surveillance C2.25Hisham Almiraat • Gavin Rees • Thodoris Chondrogiannos Phishing 101 (introductory session) C2.02Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees War and muscles on TikTok: Investigating the most popular app in the world Aula 1Henrik Bøe • Christian Nicolai Bjørke Stats with R C3.11Robert Gebeloff • Luuk Sengers Summarising complex data with Pivot tables and merges C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Pamela Duncan Text Analysis in Python C3.15Rémi Labed • Natalie Widmann

16:30 CEST

Break (cold drinks only) Cafeteria

17:00 CEST

Big Plastic in Europe – a story of power abuse and green-washing Aula 1Maria Maggiore • Lorenzo Buzzoni • Manuel Rico • Àttila Kalmán What to do when you don't have the perfect dataset for an investigation? C2.17Karrie Kehoe • Pierre Romera • Jelena Cosic You want impact? Let's work on it! C2.21Emma Prest • Eva Belmonte • Daniel Howden • Abhijit Das Child trafficking: inspiration for an investigation C2.07Tatev Hovhannisyan Find more through structured Internet Research C2.05Albrecht Ude Getting Started with Satellite Imagery C2.02Natalie Widmann • Marcus Pfeil • Michael Anthony How to follow the money and unpick offshore transactions C2.23Leigh Baldwin • Marcus Leroux Labour roundtable: Let’s talk about work! C2.28Brigitte Alfter • Adriana Homolová • Matea Grgurinović • Ana Tudela • Alexander Sokoler • Alina Lippegaus Collaborating across borders (advanced session) C2.15Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees Toxic data: working with graphic imagery and other nasties C2.25Gavin Rees Investigative journalism in audio: podcasting beyond true crime C2.01Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro GeekSpeak: Our favourite digital tools C3.15Ana Lutzky • Marcus Lindemann • Alex Pyrgiotis • Olaya Argüeso Pérez Joining tables in SQL C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Oksana Stavniichuk OpenRefine for OSINT: how to automate your open source searches C3.11Anuška Delić • Hervé Letoqueux

09:00 CEST

Coffee Cafeteria

09:30 CEST

Step by step: Digging into a multinational arms company C2.28Stefan Candea • Rafael Buschmann • Nicola Naber Mapping street names: What do they tell us? C2.15Yuliia Dukach • Lorenzo Ferrari • Kelly Kiki How to investigate public tenders? C2.05Adriana Homolová • Semir Mujkić • Irene Larraz Company ownership registries, an endangered species C2.07Karina Shedrofsky • Eric Barrett • Zsuzsanna Wirth Urban journalism is the future! Connect with journalists from other cities to improve your research C2.01Hendrik Lehmann • Gaby Khazalová Scraping at the speed of thought with TypeScript and Deno C3.11Zeke Hunter-Green • Samantha Gottlieb

10:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

11:15 CEST

How to write the perfect grant application Aula 1Timothy Large FOI'ing Europe's suspicion machines C2.07Justin-Casimir Braun • Tarjei Leer-Salvesen • Gabriel Geiger Working your entire life, struggling as a pensioner C2.05Diogo Cardoso • Matea Grgurinović • Ana Tudela Signal for beginners (introductory session) C2.01Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees Create a simple data web app in Python with Streamlit C3.15Natalie Widmann • Rémi Labed How to analyse millions of tweets (or other text) using Python notebooks (and why you might not) C3.11Paul Bradshaw • Paul Lynch

12:45 CEST

Goodbye - see you next year! Aula 2