Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

You don't necessarily have to be a data journalist to report on climate change using data. As data journalists, we will explain options available to non-coders. This session is intended to give you a feeling for what you can do yourself with temperature measurement data, emissions figures, and tables showing the damage caused by extreme weather events, and to overcome your fear that working with data is “too complicated.”

In the session, we will discuss existing databases, some of which already have built-in filtering and visualization options. Where they don't, we will explain what the first steps might look like if you can't or don't want to code yourself. We also will address the questions that are important for assessing the quality of a data set.

This session is explicitly not aimed at data journalists, but at climate journalists who have little or no experience with data but want to know what is possible and what they can do themselves.