Medialab-Prado

On 10 October, the Adaday 2017 conference will be held in the Media Lab Prado auditorium entitled: “Challenges and perspectives in data journalism”. It takes place within the Encuentro Aporta 2017 programme, which this year is celebrating its seventh edition. Coinciding with Ada Lovelace day, the first female programmer in history, this conference will deal with innovation, training and perspectives in data journalism and will go into detail on women in IT, paying special attention to making the work of women in the world of IT more visible, a subject very relevant to data journalism.

The aims of this debate and analysis conference are to define the characteristics of relevant journalism projects within the field of data journalism, mainly developed by women, and to identify data journalism as an ally of public policies and a key instrument for creating public value and fuelling the innovation system. Furthermore, the conference aims to highlight the need for data and, specifically, quality public data to be able to conduct quality data journalism. Finally, it also aims to propose actions to be able to accelerate the development of data journalism in our country.

The conference has been structured into two discussion panels. The first of them, “Women and data journalism”, chaired by Asunción Bernárdez, Director of the Institute of Feminist Research at the Faculty of Information Sciences (UCM) will start at 18:00. Regarding speakers, Carmen Galdón from Ciudad de las mujeres, Patricia Horrillo from Editatonas of Wikiesfera, Montserrat Boix, head of gender at UGT-RTVE and Marta Verde, programmer and artist, Fefa Vila, socióloga especialista en Estudios Feministas y Estudios Culturales, directora artística de El porvenir de la revuelta, Mabel Delgado, de PyLadiesMadrid, Sara Gil Casanova, física y divulgadora científica, Akelarre Ciberfeminista y su kit de autodefensa ciberfeminista y Sara Román Navarro, departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática de la UCM, will participate in this debate.

The second panel is entitled “Innovation, training and perspectives in data journalism” and its aim is to propose actions to be able to accelerate the development of data journalism in our country. Regarding speakers, Olaya Argüeso, coordinator of the Data Journalism Master’s Degree, Research and Visualisation of the Editorial Unit/URJC, María Zuil from El Confidencial, Millán Berzosa, Head of Spain and Portugal at Google News Lab, Victoria Anderica, open data for the Madrid City Council, Adolfo Antón Bravo, coordinator at DataLab (the MediaLab Prado data laboratory), and Yolanda Quintana, portavoz de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información. Dicho debate será moderado por  la periodista de datos Ana Isabel Cordobés, will participate in this debate. It will be chaired by the data journalist Ana Isabel Cordobés.

The conference will be transmitted via streaming and videos of the debates will be published online. You can also follow the debate in social networks with hashtags #ald17 #adaday2017 and # Aporta2017.

The international data visualisation programme Visualizar (Visualise), organised by MediaLab Prado, this year celebrates its tenth anniversary with a symposium open to the public on September 15 and 16 and a practical workshop dedicated to Migrations that will be developed over the second half of the month.

On Friday September 15 the public symposium starts, which will last until Saturday 16, and includes project presentations, presentation of collaborators and team training. The symposium will have a talk on Visualizar: 10 years, by José Luis de Vicente, founder of Visualizar. The presentation from Festival Transeuropa, talks on “Artistic Data Visualisation: new narrative forms” and “Code for South Africa”, from Lucila Rodríguez Alarcón and Hannah Williams, respectively, as well as participation from Julie Freeman, member of the Open Data Institute.

On Saturday September 16 the presentation of projects and collaborators will take place, as well as the methodology of projects: text editor, Markdown and Github. During the second day of the symposium Visulaizar’17 different national and international specialists in data visualisation will attend including Pau García and Polo Trías Coica (Domestic Data Streamers), José Luis Esteban Aparicio (Grupo Haskell Madrid), Álvaro Anguix and Javier Rodrigo (gvSIG), Gonzalo Fanjul (PorCausa), Samuel Granados (graphic editor at The Washington Post) and Alison Killing (architect and visual artist).

The following workshop, dedicated to the migration of people and the migration of data, made in partnership with PorCausa, aims to develop the eight selected projects between September 17 and 29, whose results will be presented publicly on September 30. To develop the projects there is a team of international and national mentors: graphic editors, data scientist, visualizers, cartographers and interaction designers, among others. This workshop focuses on the features, processes and behaviours of migration understood as a movement across the world territory -local, global or glocal- by species (flora and fauna), people, data or substances, with the aim of giving greater visibility to migrations, to decipher stories that hide numbers and connect data to creativity and technology

Visualizar is an international workshop for prototyping data visualisation projects from Medialab-Prado who advocates for developing the field of data visualisation. Since 2007, the programme Visualizar has researched social, cultural and artistic implications of data culture, and proposes methodologies to make them more understandable and to open up ways to participate and critique.

More information: Visualizar´17 

On Friday, April 21, a workshop dedicated to data science in the social and health sector will take place in Media-Lab Prado, Madrid. A meeting designed for professionals and researchers specialized in the data analysis for social purposes and belonging to the health science.

The event will start with a specific session on the analysis of urban mobility through big data, followed by two talks related to the healthcare sector under the titles "Big4Cast: prediction of crisis in bipolar disorder" and "machine learning in EGG predictive analysis ".

As a clousure of the day, the attendees will be able to learn about the work of other experts in the field through the poster exhibition that will take place during the workshop. Those professionals who have sent their pieces of work to vlopezlo@ucm.es will obtain the corresponding certificate. Afterwards, a round table will be held where five representatives of public and private entities will discuss on the following topics:

• Social development with maps (ESRI España).

• Healthcare research (Fujitsu).

• Madrid Salud (WAP).

• Innovation in the cloud (AWS).

• Open Data (City of Madrid).

To attend at the workshop, participants need to register before through the Eventbrite webpage. 

From September 26th to October 5th the international workshop Visualizar'16 Open Cities will take place in the cultural space Medialab Prado (Madrid), an event dedicated to those cities in the world that are committed to openness of information, transparency and re-use of data to improve services provided for citizens.

On this occasion, two simultaneous calls are opened: one call for projects related to open cities and an application for collaborators. During the workshop a maximum of 8 proposals will be developed, selected among those submitted until August 14th and the final list will be published on August 25th. The project proposals may be submitted individually or collectively, but they must necessarily be open to other collaborators who can contribute to their development during the workshop.

Secondly, those interested in participating as collaborators may submit their request until next September 19th. The collaborators, led by the project leaders, will be part of the working groups, providing expertise and ideas in the development of the selected projects. As there will be no selection process, all applications will be accepted until full capacity. Moreover, working groups will be completely organized during the initial presentation of the projects.

Participants in the workshop may register through the online platform Community, an interactive network of Medialab Prado that allows collaborators to contact the project leaders and send questions, opinions or comments.

The projects developed during Visualizar'16 Open Cities will be presented at the Open Cities Summit, to be held in the same place in October 5th and included in the agenda of events before the International Open Data Conference. Once the summit is over, the work will be exposed in Medialab Prado until December 12th.

The aim of the Visualizar'16 workshop is to re-use the city open data in different fields such as environmental sustainability, infrastructure, citizenship or socio-cultural sector. The proposals may include visualization tools, mechanisms of participatory data collection, development of open hardware tools for information collection, open data initiatives ... or any idea to exploit the potential of this resource in urban environments.

During nine days, a solution prototype will be developed and tested through eight working groups that will be coordinated by each project leader. Projects will be developed with free software, open standards and under licenses that allow their re-use and redistribution.

This workshop is included within the Medialab Prado program, Visualizar, which organizes annual sessions on research processes related to theories, tools and data visualization strategies to improve their understanding and to use them for the general good.