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As it happened: Data expert Nicolas Kayser-Bril delivers news:rewired keynote

Nicolas Kayser-Bril, chief executive and co-founder of Journalism++, delivers the keynote speech at news:rewired – digital stories.

A self-taught programmer and data-driven journalist, Kayser-Bril was previously in charge of data journalism at ‘augmented news’ site OWNI, where he led several experiments in crowdsourced data gathering. His new role focuses on bringing web technologies into journalistic workflows, here he offers some simple tips for improving digital journalism.

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Announcing Tableau as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – connected journalism

Tableau’s senior product consultant, Andy Cotgreave, will join the integrated storytelling panel at news:rewired – connected journalism.

Tableau Public is a free software application that allows journalists to create interactive charts and share them online. The software features an intuitive drag and drop interface and does not require any computer programming skills to operate.

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#newsrw: ‘There is no point in having data unless you have context to go with it’

Open data is essential, but useless without context – that was the consensus at the local data session. A lively debate took place, where delegates heard from a range of speakers and their attempts to fill the niche in local data, creating “open data cities” and encouraging transparency

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