The professionals of information have had to adapt to a new scenario in which the habits of information consumption and distribution of content have been completely transformed. The new challenges facing their profession go through Open Data movement...

Data journalism is about scripping down the news to the bare facts and relating these facts in a simple and graphic way. Explanation of their functions and challenges with the support of examples.

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TheStory.ie is a project committed to the interchange of documents, to data filtering and promoting of transparency in the public sphere. An journalistic experimental, based on crowdsourcing, that allows to shed some light on the management of the...

Explanation about how Google Refine works and its potenciality in the field of data visualization. Google Refine is a free tool of Google that allows working with databases out of order, cleaning them and converting formats.

Practical example (about the contamination in Madrid) that shows how data can be generated of news.

In Spain, dozens of organizations demand the approval of a law of Access to Information, which allows to access database and to reuse this data as part of citizen rights.

Presentation about creative programming: gestural interfaces, visual abstraction and information visualization.

Theoretical session of the workshop, which is oriented to the 8 bits graphics, animated GIFs and color studies.