Ten Cool Things I Learned at DataJConf
This article was cross-posted from its original location at the Open and Shut blog I had a fantastic time at the European Computational and Data Journalism Conference in Dublin on…
First National Open Data Conference in Turkey
On September 25, The First National Open Data Conference will be held in Antalya. The conference is being organized by the Open Data and Data Journalism Association (Açık Veri ve…
Call for a week-long data journalism training in Berlin
Photo from a data visualization training in Istanbul, 2014. Author: Nika Aleksejeva ‘Data-driven journalism against prejudices about migration’ training course for young media-makers, human rights activists and developers Berlin, 12…
Open Data Party Akure – Treading new grounds in Nigeria!
We took the open data party to the Southwest of Nigeria with the goal of building a data literate community in Nigeria. School of Data collaborated with the Nigeria Open data…
The School of Data Macedonia website is live!
Open data is a generator of prosperity and democratization of the society, said the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Macedonia, Charles Edmund Garrett at the launch event of  the the School…
School of Data coming to Ottawa!
In a couple of days, the School of Data community will be descending upon Ottawa – first, for our annual Summer Camp, and then to join the International Open Data…
May we Fetch you Some Data Skills? Exactly, at the Open Data Day in Abuja
While everyone else whines about more training time for tools to can improve their data skills at our last open data party in Abuja, we did something about it at…
Learn data visualization and data-driven journalism in a real “Data Jam”
[Cross posted from GMA News Online; Press release by Banthay.ph] On February 21 (International Open Data Day), Bantay.ph, a platform that uses technology in mobilizing citizens to demand good governance,…
The Data Journalism Bootcamp at AUB Lebanon
Data love is spreading like never before. Unlike previous workshops we did in the MENA region, on the 18th of January 2015, we gave an intensive data journalism workshop at…
Digital Methods Initiative Winter School, University of Amsterdam
Last week I attended the 7th annual Winter School at Amsterdam University. Run by the Digital Methods Initiative, it took the form of a data sprint in which students joined…