Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

What would European democracies look like if habitual non-voters decided to cast their ballot in the next elections? This is the starting question of “The non-voter time bomb”, a project run by the Portuguese media Divergente, involving data collection from the 27 EU countries. It is based on the contribution of 12 media partners and 15 freelancers. The session will focus on: Divergente’s approach to data journalism: the faces and thinking behind the numbers; how to build a human map of voter abstention in Europe with quantitative and “hyper-qualitative” methods, and their findings up until Dataharvest begins. Part of the session will be dedicated to explaining how Divergente, helped by Dataninja, engaged volunteers in data checking and cleaning through a training course on data journalism.