Reg. for: MCB Hack

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The Data Journalism Conference.

When

28. September.

Time: 09:30 - 15:00


What

MCB Hack is a brand-new conference aimed specifically at the nerds in the newsroom. The conference concerns the point of intersection between technology and journalism, where visualizing, coding, scraping, and sensory are all relevant keywords. We promise you a program with the industry´s highest nerd factor!

Speakers:

  • Maarten Lambrechts (Belgia): From raw data to 17 interactive data stories – Behind the scenes of building the SDG Atlas 2020
  • Marianne Bouchart (HEI-DA) - Data journalism world tour for nerds
  • Lasse Lambrecths (Bergens Tidende): Staircase to heaven
  • Topi Tjukanov (Finland)- 10 surprising techniques to make better maps
  • Mads Ommundsen og Frode Nordbø (Fædrelandsvennen): 9C – Med ungdommen, for ungdommen
  • John Burn-Murdoch (The Financial Times) - Lesson learned visualizing the pandemic
  • Vegard Vaage (NetSecurity)

We close of the conference with a panel discussion with Maarten Lambrechts, Lasse Lambrecths, Topi Tjukanov and John Burn-Murdoch. This session is moderated by Marianne Bouchart.

We end it all with a Hackathon, where everyone will work together to solve a problem. The Hackathon is free, and open for all the participants at the conference to attend. However, the Hackathon does have its own registration here.


Alle med interesse for fagfeltet er velkomne til å delta på konferansen

MCB Hack er en rykende fersk konferanse rettet spesielt mot nerdene i redaksjonene. Konferansen legger seg midt i skjæringspunktet mellom teknologi og journalistikk, hvor visualisering, koding, skraping og sensorikk er relevante stikkord. Vi lover et program med bransjens aller høyeste nerdefaktor!

  • Maarten Lambrechts (Belgia): From raw data to 17 interactive data stories – Behind the scenes of building the SDG Atlas 2020
  • Lasse Lambrecths (Bergens Tidende): Staircase to heaven
  • Mads Ommundsen og Frode Nordbø (Fædrelandsvennen): 9C – Med ungdommen, for ungdommen
  • Topi Tjukanov (Finland)- 10 surprising techniques to make better maps
  • Marianne Bouchart (HEI-DA) - Data journalism world tour for nerds
  • John Burn-Murdoch (The Financial Times) - Lesson learned visualising the pandemic
  • Vegard Vaage (NetSecurity)

Vi runder det hele av med en Hackathon, hvor vi jobber sammen på et problem i fellesskap. Hackathonen er gratis og åpen for alle deltakerne på konferansen, men har egen påmelding påmelding her.


Program

Maarten Lambrechts (Belgia): From raw data to 17 interactive data stories – Behind the scenes of building the SDG Atlas 2020
How do you bring official statistics and data from research to life online, with data visualization and interactivity? And how do you make topic experts, writers, graphics people and web developers cooperate on 17 different data stories, that all require the consistency of a single, coherent publication? In this presentation, Maarten Lambrechts, member of the data visualization team behind the SDG Atlas 2020, shares insights from the process and technology used to manage and build the Atlas. He'll talk about drafting story outlines, writing and editing text collaboratively, sketching visualizations, managing and wrangling data in R and finally building stories and scrolly visualizations with React, D3, Adobe Illustrator and Mapbox.

Marianne Bouchart (HEI-DA) - Data journalism world tour for nerds
In this session, data journalism expert Marianne Bouchart will take you on a world tour of the most inspiring data-driven projects of recent years, with insights on what technologies lie behind them. Get inspired by drone journalism projects, AI and machine learning techniques, and othersensor innovations from Europe, Africa and Asia.

Marianne Bouchart is the founder and director of HEI-DA, a media nonprofit building data journalism and innovative news projects around the world. She is also the executive director of the Sigma Awards data journalism competition.

Before launching HEI-DA, Marianne spent 10 years in London where she worked as a web producer, data journalism and graphics editor for Bloomberg News, amongst others. She created the Data Journalism Blog in 2011 and gives lectures at journalism schools, in the UK and in France.

Lasse Lambrecths (Bergens Tidende): Staircase to heaven

Topi Tjukanov - 10 surprising techniques to make better maps

Mads Ommundsen og Frode Nordbø (Fædrelandsvennen): 9C – Med ungdommen, for ungdommen

John Burn-Murdoch (The Financial Times) - Lesson learned visualising the pandemic

Over the last 18 months the Financial Times’ data and visual journalism team has been covering the pandemic at a speed and scale matched by few other newsrooms in the world. Along the way, we have published hundreds of data-driven stories and more than 1,000 charts, and received thousands of emails, comments and messages from readers. This talk will explore the lessons we have learned along the way, and how they can be applied well beyond the scope of Covid-19.

Vegard Vaage (NetSecurity)


This event is a part of the Media City Bergen Future Week, 27 September - 1 October. 50+ events will be taking place inside the Media City Bergen building, Oslo and Stavanger - all focused on topics that challenge our common future as it is driven and shaped by technology.
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Where

Atlantis, MCB Auditorium
Lars Hilles gate 30
5008 Bergen

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Organizer

Media City Bergen