How to investigate climate change, teach data viz and more
Hello, hacks and hackers! The DADI Foundation is conducting research into how technology affects democracy, and it’s looking for submissions of case studies for projects that use tech for democracy from around the world.
Find out more info about what they’re looking for here. And look out for our monthly global call happening Wednesday, May 1:
Happening this week:
- New Orleans is talking about nonprofit news
Worth a read:
- James Fahn of the Earth Journalism Network wrote a guide on how to investigate climate change around the world, including what kind of industries to track and how to look into carbon credits (GIJN)
- Capital One’s tech team wrote a post on how to use the container reuse function when running an AWS Lambda function that accesses a datastore to reduce running time and persist the connection (Medium)
- From Data To Viz helps you find what kind of graphic to use based on your dataset and shows you the code in R, Python or D3, the site also has teaching materials for teaching data viz (From Data To Viz)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 30-1 | San Jose | US | Facebook Developer Conference |
| May | 2-3 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 3-5 | Winnipeg | Canada | Canadian Association of Journalists' Conference |
| May | 13-17 | San Francisco | US | The Web Conference |
| May | 16-19 | Mechelen | Belgium | European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 17-19 | Prague | Czech Republic | Wikimedia Hackathon |
| May | 24-28 | Washington, D.C. | US | ICA Conference |
| May | 27-28 | Bonn | Germany | DW Global Media Forum |
| June | 1-3 | Glasgow | UK | World News Media Conference |
| June | 11-14 | Tunis | Tunisia | RightsCon Tunis |
| June | 13-15 | Athens | Greece | GEN Summit |
| June | 13-16 | Houston | US | Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Cape Town | South Africa | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 19-21 | Toronto | Canada | International Conference on Social Media & Society |
| October | 4 | Cambridge, MA | US | Workshop on Disinformation at Harvard |
| October | 4-5 | London | UK | Conference for Truth and Trust Online |
Job openings:
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| May | Emerging City Champions 2019 $500k fellowship |
| May | Apply for ProPublica’s 2019 Data Institute training |
