One of the benefits of working with DW ReCO is that the team is so resourceful. When running into a technical challenge, there’s no need to wait for a standard solution to appear in an app store; our colleagues just open their laptops and start hacking. Like Andy Giefer, who was recently looking for a smart way to analyze sessions on Twitter Spaces.
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DW Research and Cooperation Projects is teaming up with BBC News Labs to organize a hackathon in the scope of DW’s upcoming annual Global Media Forum (GMF). (more…)
The last months were an exciting time. We, the YourDataStories consortium, did not only enjoy the autumn colors, but also brought our data-based platform out to shine.
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Moving from setup phase to prototyping
Time is passing quickly and YourDataStories (YDS), our research project on making #opendata more accessible and transparent, is already beyond the first year of its three years project duration.
As projects go, the first year was full of first steps: Setting up the consortium, creating the necessary project structures and communication lines as well as establishing a basis for the actual development. Activities ranged from setting up the technical infrastructure to gathering and analysing the main user requirements for the envisioned application.
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Short and tweet: Five tweets from this month you shouldn’t miss.
We’ve spent some time reading social news from around the web, and there’s lots of good stuff out there. We’d like to share what we’ve found: Here’s our list from July.
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