Finding, Mining and Exploiting Data

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The archived session from ONA22 covers beginner-friendly tactics to obtain data through mining and creative requests and will offer ideas about how reporters, including those without technical skills, can use readily available datasets to tackle elections, crime, traffic and more. Discover how investigative journalists from award-winning news organizations are using modern technology and applications to locate, search and exploit public records to tell powerful stories.

Speakers

Denise Vickers

Director, Innovation News Center, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

Brandon Meyer

Adjunct Lecturer and Newsroom Technology Fellow, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

Gavin Off

Data Reporter, Charlotte (N.C.) Observer