Help translate the School of Data workshop sessions from Perugia

[Joris Pekel]

Hi all

Last week we organised a School of Data Journalism workshop in Perugia, here is all the material of this great day

We believe it is really important to bring these materials to people in their own language and a few participants of the workshops have already asked us to subtitle the workshop material into Italian. We need your help! 

## Videos, Materials and Slides now online 

Panel Discussions

• Panel 1: The State of Data Journalism in 2013
• Panel 2: Data and Investigations: Collaborating Across Borders
• Panel 3: Data Journalism in Southern Europe
• Panel 4: Covering Emergencies in the Age of Big Data

Workshops

• Workshop 1: Excel for Journalists, with Steve Doig
• Workshop 2: Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
• Workshop 3: Making visualisations – a survival guide
• Workshop 4: Data visualisation, maps and timelines on a shoestring

## Help us translate the materials into other languages 

There is a great tool to allow community-based translations of video materials - Amara. 

Interested in helping us to translate? Read on: 

• Look at the spreadsheet here: http://bit.ly/YfcZhf - we've filled in the language column with Italian - but others are welcome to translate into other languages. 
• Pick the video you would like to start translating - click on the link to it in column c to go to the Amara column and click the link. Create an Amara account. 
• Coming back to the spreadsheet - Write your name and email address in the column you would like to volunteer for. You can either volunteer to: a) Do stage one - subtitle into English (you need to do this before you can translate into other languages to get the timing right.) b) Translate the English subtitles into another language. 
• Of course - you may volunteer to do all of the translation - but these are 90 mins long, so you may want to work as a team! If you don't want to do the whole video - write how much time (e.g. up to 45:00 of the video) you are volunteering for in column I- and then the next person can take the baton from there. 

Note: it is possible that the text on some of these presentations is too small to read in the screen versions :( We'd recommend watching the presentation through yourself first to decide whether the subtitles (together with the tutorials) would give enough information be worth the effort. Luckily - Workshop 3 uses large text - so that one is good and clear! Perhaps start with that :)