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How to spot rogue statistics and how to handle them? Find facts faster and know what questions you need to ask.

Data is now an indispensable part of investigative work and storytelling. This workshop provides an overview of Data Journalism, and introduces a set of concepts, tools and techniques that every journalist can employ to produce effective and compelling data stories.

Check desk is an open source platform for enabling collaborative fact-checking of eyewitness media and newsworthy social media. It is designed to generate a shareable and embeddable object that can be place alongside a story or feature. The heart of Checkdesk is the simple chronologically ordered log of the reporting teams entries.

This session, facilitated by Meedan’s CEO, Ed Bice, will be a hand’s on workshop leading journalists through typical workflows with Checkdesk from establishing the story/project container, to adding reports, inviting collaborators, and setting a report status. This is a non-technical workshop but participants who want to be hands on should bring their laptops and, if possible, share their email addresses before the session to ed@meedan.com

The European Journalism Centre and Google News Lab also cordially invite you to the event’s after party in the evening of Tuesday 8 Dec. The after party takes place at the Workman’s Club (10 Wellington Quay) in Dublin at 8PM. You will have an opportunity to hear from the journalism start-ups in Dublin and meet our top notch international guests from major media outlets. More information and the registration page can be found here. Please note you are only admitted upon showing your day entry ticket.