Name: Mining data from unstructured documents
Start: 2026-05-30T17:15:00+0200
End: 2026-05-30T17:45:00+0200

Saturday May 30, 2026 5:15pm - 5:45pm CEST

You have a folder of documents and you want to extract data points from each one. And the data isn't in a structured table with neat rows and columns either. Here's where string functions and regular expressions can help. The demonstration will be in R but the skills are generic to all languages.

Materials: https://github.com/gebelo/Dataharvest2026

Speakers

Robert Gebeloff

Reporter, New York Times

Robert Gebeloff has worked as a data projects reporter for The New York Times since 2008 and has taught data journalism for many years in newsrooms and at conferences. He was co-winner of the George Polk Award in 2015 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in both 2015 and 2016 for projects... Read More →

Saturday May 30, 2026 5:15pm - 5:45pm CEST
Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk

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Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

Robert Gebeloff

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Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

Robert Gebeloff

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