Developed by the Open Knowledge Brasil Data School (OKBR) and the Google News Initiative, the 7th edition of Coda.Br 2022 (Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods) starts next Monday (31). Aimed at journalists and civil society organizations, the event will be held in a hybrid way: online from 10/31 to 11/3 and in person on 11/5 and 6/11 at ESPM in São Paulo.
The largest data journalism conference in Latin America will address topics such as citizen generation of data, transparency of public data, issues related to technology and privacy, and the celebration of 50 years of precision journalism – a tribute to American journalist Philip Meyer.
The event features workshops on techniques for covering municipal budgets; rights in accessing public data; investigation of territorial and land data and even information about advertisements on social networks. The program also offers two bootcamps (intensive training) introduction to Python and R languages.
Names like Valmir Storti (GE), Clara Velasco (G1), Daniele de Jesus (UFBA), Giulio Carvalho (Open Knowledge Brasil), Laís Martins (Núcleo Jornalismo), Carolina Moreno (TV Globo), Clara Sacco (data_labe), Marcelo Soares (Lagom Data), Fernando Barbalho (National Treasury), Maria Vitória Ramos (Stay in the Know) and Juan Torres (IDP) are already confirmed.
“Coda.Br has already established itself as the most important meeting of the Brazilian community that uses data to impact public issues of the greatest relevance”, says Fernanda Campagnucci, executive director of OKBR. The democratization of data and its application to issues such as environmental monitoring, education, public security and urban policies are on the CODA agenda.
The program also includes the presence of Marco Túlio Pires, head of Google News Lab in Brazil, who will give workshops on advanced use of the Google Trends tool and basic data visualization with Data Studio and Flourish.
“Google has several tools that should be allied to journalistic work. When we talk about data, we are able to bring precision, agility and inputs to professionals in the area. Our objective in this event is to train and show the potential of these solutions”, says Marco Túlio Pires. Check out the full agenda.
Cláudio Weber Abramo Award and live broadcast
In its fourth edition, the Cláudio Weber Abramo Prize for Data Journalism recognizes the best works in the area, in four different categories: visualization, investigation, innovation and experimentation, and open data. The award is an initiative of Escola de Dados, in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and Transparência Brasil. The award ceremony takes place at the end of the event on November 6 – meet the finalists. “Data-driven journalistic work has already proven to be essential and relevant to support and shed light on urgent discussions in the country, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, for example. Rewarding these initiatives is to promote journalism committed to evidence”, said the coordinator of the School of Data, Jamile Santana.
As in previous years, the panels, keynotes and the Cláudio Weber Abramo Prize for Data Journalism will be free and open to the public. The broadcast will be on the Data School YouTube channel.
the workshops and bootcamps online, in turn, will be closed activities for those who choose any of the payment methods and for participants of the Escola de Dados membership program. Click here to subscribe.
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