What we’re about
We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future. Together, we aim to learn and share ✨ technical skills for use in our reporting in a supportive environment.
That might be 🔎 data analysis as part of an investigation, 💻 scraping data from government websites, 📉 building data visualisations to better tell a story, or something else entirely.
We meet monthly to learn and network. All sessions are appropriate for complete beginners and above.
Our events do typically fill up, but if it's full please do join the waitlist as spaces do often open up. And if you find you can no longer make it, please update your RSVP so someone else can take your spot.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Analysing relationship networks with Python and NetworkXThe News Building, London
This month we'll be learning how to analyse networks of relationships with the Python programming language and a library called NetworkX.
When we have data on relationships between people or companies, we can use network analysis to better understand the connections within. It allows us to answer questions such as: how connected are the people in this network? Who is important? What are the subgroups and communities? It has been perhaps most used in journalism to look at social media, and in particular how disinformation can spread online, but it has the potential be used for many other things too.
NetworkX is a Python package which gives us the tools to understand the structure of these networks. In this session we'll be following a tutorial that will cover how to use NetworkX to approach analysing this kind of data, including why and how to look at the network's shape, techniques we can use to find key nodes in the network, and how to identify sub-communities.
All of our events are suitable for beginners, and no programming experience is required. Bring a laptop along as this a practical, hands-on workshop. Please also sign up for a Dropbox account if you don't already have one so you can edit the shared doc we'll be using during the event. You will also need a Google account.
Schedule
7:00 🚪 Doors open
7:30 🗣 Show and tell
7:40 💻 Tutorial
9:00 🍺 Drinks at the GeorgeIf you can't make the main event, you're also welcome to just join us in the pub from 9!
What is Journocoders? We are a community and monthly meetup for journalists and other people in the media who want to learn technical skills for use in their reporting -- and meet likeminded others.
Our events do often fill up, but if it's full please do join the waitlist as spaces do typically become available. And if you find you can no longer make it, please update your RSVP so someone else can take your spot.
