Beginning of the Data Journalism Course organized by BISITE and the Professional Association of Journalists of Castile and Leon

The third Data Journalism Course will be offered as part of the collaboration between the BISITE Research Group and the Professional Association of Journalists of Castile and Leon.

This is an online course which has more than fifty students from various autonomous communities and has a duration of six weeks.

Juan M. Corchado on 13 April 2018. Friday.

The third Data Journalism Course will be offered as part of the collaboration between the BISITE Research Group and the Professional Association of Journalists of Castile and Leon.

This is an online course which has more than fifty students from various autonomous communities and has a duration of six weeks. This course is organized to meet the current needs in the field of journalism, and to ensure that professionals in the sector have knowledge of new advancements and can adapt to new environments. Manuel Benito will be the academic coordinator of the course, he works as a journalist at the Porcentual company.

This course will give students the opportunity to gain more insight into a genre that is an increasingly important element of journalism. Ever-greater amounts of data are available to us and the ability to search, select, validate and manage them is crucial.

For more information on this interesting course, go to the following website: http://www.colegioperiodistascyl.es/formacionEmpleo/periodismo-de-datos/inicio

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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