2014-05-14
BRUSSELS - 194 people from 27 different countries gathered in Brussels this weekend for Journalismfund.eu’s Dataharvest+. These and a few other statistics about the fourth edition of the Dataharvest conference.
Dataharvest started out in 2011 as a small gathering of thirty-odd people, organised by Farmsubsidy, Wobbing.eu and Journalismfund.eu. Over the years the conference continuously grew in scale and scope, to also include investigative and cross-border journalism.
In 2012 about 100 people attended the conference, a number which rose to 150 in 2013 and has continued upward to reach 194 this year— among them journalists, coders, software engineers, media people, lawyers and academics.
27 countries represented
This year’s 194 participants came from a total of 27 different countries, up from 22 last year and the year before. Not too surprisingly, most participants were Belgian (31), although there were a lot of Danes (28) and Dutch (26) as well. Quite some people came from Germany (16) and the UK (15), too, followed by Southern Europens from Spain (11) and Italy (10). A few people even flew in from outside Europe: Indian FOI specialist Shyamlal Yadav, as well as three Ethiopian and three American journalists.
The participants had a total of 79 different sessions to choose from during the two-and-a-half-day conference, ranging from keynotes by EU ombudswoman Emily O’Reilly or The Guardian’s Joris Luyendijk among many others and Journalismfund.eu supported projects on migration in Europe, human trafficking or food fraud, over sessions on the EU’s farm subsidies and Wobbing or FOI journalism, to workshops to improve your online research skills or learn how to scrape and visualise data.
Popular on Twitter
As a small extra we counted the number of tweets sent about each of the sessions and if our calculations are correct #MigrantsFiles was the most tweeted about (28), with EU ombudswoman O’Reilly’s keynote following as a close second (although the Migrants Files team did have two separate sessions, one in French and one in English).
Find all #DHplus wrap-ups, summaries and articles, as well as interviews with the speakers and recaps and slides of their sessions on this wrap-up page.
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