EIJC19 & Dataharvest

Launched in September 2018, the first collaborative investigation by the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) analysed over 100 million meteorological data points from 117 years of weatherdata for 558 entities in Europe. Several challenges were faced: how to make a global issue local? How to find common entities to assign data to across borders? How to produce content on this scale? Nicolas Kayser Bril and Leonard Wallentin, data analysts and curators of the investigation, will tell how they made it and will show how to use the database created. The impact of making data local was indeed relevant: over 100 outlets across Europe have republished or have adapted the story in 11 languages to date.

With the uprise of right-wing parties around the world, climate change deniers have gained powerful political partners such as Trump and Bolsonaro. Last year we have investigated how climate change deniers form international networks and collaborate with right-wing populists parties in Europe. In this session we will explore a freely available database that we used during the investigation, containing organizations and individuals around the world that are denying human made climate change and are actively weakening environmental protection policies.

The International Medical Devices Database empowers patients, doctors and regulators with unprecedented knowledge. With 13 different data sources and 75,000 records, we will explain how you can use this unique database to bring more transparency to an opaque industry.

YouTube is one of the most important social media for young people in the US and in Europe. Due to the lax moderation policy of the video behemoth, there is a lot of extremist content and disinformation on the platform. Also the technical infrastructure, especially the recommendation algorithm, favors extremist content and pulls viewers into a rabbit hole of right wing extremism, conspiracy theories and fake news. This session shows methods and results from a 7 months investigation into this rabbithole and show how you can find radicalized users. Dutch De Correspondent has developed a python library with which you can emulate our research in your own country, or use it to explore other topics, niches and communities on YouTube. As a bonus, iyou will be guided through the weird community of right wing extremist YouTube stars and alt-right vernacular and memes that will help you to understand the rise of extremists all over the world.

What did we dig out during the Hackday? During the "Home, sweet expensive home" hackday, coders and data journalists worked with a number of datasets for everybody to use. The final results are yet to be known, but possible themes are * the increase in rental prices in towns and cities across Europe (maybe also about property prices?) * reliable and comparable data at the local, national and European levels * number of Airbnb and touristic apartments *number of empty homes * number of social housing and rent-controlled housing * number of homeless people.

Health, medicines and care is one of two topics of the EIJC19 Hackday. It brings together specialised journalists and coders who join forces to make accessible a diverse range of data in the field. From public tender data over science funding analysis to medical testing and side effects. Come meet the specialists and take home access to relevant data and document collections in the field.

OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies and company data in the world. Its aim is "to make information on companies more usable and more widely available for the public benefit, particularly to tackle the use of companies for criminal or anti-social purposes, for example corruption, money laundering and organised crime". In this session, we'll hear how journalists can use and benefit from the work done by OpenCorporates.