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Happenings

Grab your tickets for Outlier

The Data Visualization Society is kicking off the new year with its Outlier conference, which starts on 5 Feb and runs over the course of the weekend. It's a virtual event, with 40-odd speakers (and counting) from all over the world (although not a great showing from African countries - down to f...

2 weeks ago

MozFest, Amsterdam goes virtual

8 March 2021Amsterdam, Online Mozilla's annual festival, MozFest, discussing how to make the internet a better place for all, will be held in Amsterdam and -- predictably -- virtually too next year. This huge event typically attracts over 3,000 participants from 82 countries, and if you've got so...

Jason Norwood-Young

2 months ago

A multitude of maps

If you haven't noticed, throughout November there's a #30DayMapChallenge taking place on Twitter, which challenges budding cartographers to use different techniques to illustrate geospatial data every day. There are hundreds of people taking part, and the daily themes range from "red" to "Climate...

2 months ago

Get your hack on

South African Infosec community Hack South is hosting its annual 0xcon event this weekend, covering subjects as broad as OSINT and uploading DooM to the Mars Rover. To deal with social distancing limitations, the event is being streamed to YouTube while discussions take place on the community Dis...

2 months ago

The state of visualisation

You love dataviz right? And you want to see more and better work in the medium around the world? Then go and help the ever growing Data Visualization Society map out the state of the industry by taking part in its annual census of datavizzers, and demand some very impressive treatments of the cen...

4 months ago

Don't Miss, Happenings

Bellingcat, the movie

The South African International Documentary Festival is in full-swing, with tons of great local and international films to feast on. Although it's all online, the organisers are trying to mimic the worst of a real cinema experience (apart from the guy spilling popcorn down the back of your shirt)...

Jason Norwood-Young

5 months ago

Code for All, 2020

When: 14, 20 and 22 July 2020 Where: The Interwebs If one good thing has come from Covid-19, it's that all the cool conferences are much more accessible online. Code for All is an umbrella organisation for the many "Code For ..." organisations scattered across the globe, with OpenUp (previously C...

Jason Norwood-Young

6 months ago

How I learned to stop worrying and love the machine (with NYC Media Lab)

If you need a crash course on the state of technology and the media (and who doesn't), check out the MACHINES + MEDIA event, a series of five discussions with some very smart people about the state of our industry, where we're going, and what pitfalls and opportunities we have along the way. The ...

Jason Norwood-Young

6 months ago

Attend the CIJ’s summer school online

Here's a great opportunity that's come about as a result of the travel lockdowns - the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is hosting its annual summer school online. I was a regularly attendee before I left Blighty for warmer climes, and couldn't hand over my money fast enough for the fest...

7 months ago

Build a website for your favourite charity

This year's Do_Action hackathon moves online, so you can build Wordpress websites for South African charities in nothing but your undies. Teams of six work intensely for a week to deliver a brand-spanking-new Wordpress website for one of ten non-profits.

Jason Norwood-Young

7 months ago

Hacking at Coronavirus

I'm unconvinced that hackathons will be quite the same without beer and pizza, but they continue through our various quarantines virtually nonetheless. Canadian hackers went on a marathon three-day marathon hackathon on 17, 18 and 19 April, Together vs Virus, and some emerged with impressive resu...

Jason Norwood-Young

9 months ago

Happenings, My Corona

Civic Tech Forum: The show must go on

Kudos to the folks at the Civic Tech Innovation Forum in Johannesburg. The three day event (including the journalism focussed Jamfest) was scheduled for this week (and yours truly was to have been a speaker), but has obviously been cancelled thanks to the corona-clampdown. All is not lost, howeve...

10 months ago

Happenings, Stack

Hack of the Year

The ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award is open for nominations, and the good news is that you can nominate yourself, should you feel deserving. It doesn't matter if you're a hard-core hack, a hoity editor or a nerdy techie, they're specifically looking for coverage and innovation that has...

Jason Norwood-Young

11 months ago

The African Investigative (Data) Journalism Conference

28 - 30 OctoberWits University, Johannesburg This year's African Investigative Journalism Conference's speaker list is top-notch. Apart from the usual investigative journo crowd, there's plenty of data journalism happening: Al Jazeera's Mohammed El-Haddad heads up AJLabs; Dorothy Otieno is the Da...

Jason Norwood-Young

a year ago

Data über alles – GIJC 2019

26 - 29 SeptemberHamburg, Germany The Global Investigative Journalism Conference gets going in the land of currywurst and Fritz Cola, and has data journ sprinkled liberally throughout with a whole big data track. SQL, QGIS, R... Most exciting is that some live streaming has been promised, which i...

Jason Norwood-Young

a year ago