Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

The naming of streets after people is far from a neutral activity; each city map tells its own story about how societies translate their views and values into space. There is clearly a gender gap, but there are other issues too: do street names celebrate people from minorities, social movements, disadvantaged social classes, non-Europeans, or people associated with controversial military campaigns? When did these people live, and where did they come from? Whose names are missing from our cities’ streets? A collaborative project led by OBC Transeuropa, within the European Data Journalism Network, has examined 30 major cities in 17 European countries. In this session, we'll see how the project progressed from initial idea, to deciding how to present the data. And we will see how collaborative working led to the reuse of data for different formats and story angles.