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Dataharvest/EIJC, The European Investigative Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, is the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. Dataharvest EIJC16 will take place on Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday morning 5 June 2016, with a pre-conference Hack Day on Thursday 2 June.
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Sunday, June 5 • 12:00 - 13:00
(Strand I) Scraping with Python

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The web's made from data, so why not report using that data? This workshop will teach you the basics of taking data from a (or millions of) web sites using Python - gathering all the info you need to build an understanding of a dataset that the original website didn't let you see. We'll introduce you to the basic technologies of the web - HTML pages, the HTTP communications protocol and the Python tools that interpret both to let you make robot data gatherers.
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avatar for Adriana Homolova

Adriana Homolova

ARENA / Follow The Money, Austria/ Slovakia
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. She coordinates the data skills training track on the Dataharvest conference and investigates the European Union for Follow The Money Bureau Brussel.
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Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →

Sunday June 5, 2016 12:00 - 13:00 PDT
Z1.11
  Data Lab, Hands-on

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