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A new data tool in Kenya

Greetings, hacks and hackers! Code for Africa just launched their new data tool PesaYetu.

PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists in Kenya obtain county-level datasets and visualizations.

Happening this week:

Worth a read:

Nieman Lab’s monthly journalism research newsletter highlighted a study that looked at how journalists covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Twitter compared to their articles and found that journalists were likely to use more cognitive biases in tweets.
A GitHub user meticulously documented their experience learning R over a year into a 30,000 word document indexed by topic that details strengths and pitfalls of the language.
The Sigma Awards, which lauds the best data journalism from around the world, announced 12 projects as its winners this year from 603 entries in 76 countries. Some of the founders compiled data journalism lessons they learned from going through the entries.

Upcoming events:

April 13-May 18, Online, AP Local News AI Readiness Workshops
May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
June 22-24, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme
August 25-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hacks/Hackers Media Party

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