Greetings, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival happened this weekend in Perugia, Italy, and if you weren’t able to be there, the #IFJ19 tweeters have you covered.

Something BIG just happened! Today, we launched https://t.co/PfOfzBimpB. It combines online training courses, long reads from the best #ddj experts and community forums. Start exploring now! #ifj19 #data #journalism pic.twitter.com/fJzAVDOOuG

— DataJournalism.com (@datajournalism) April 4, 2019

It also saw the launch of datajournalism.com, which offers members The Data Journalism Handbook, 1Password, DIFFBOT and a host of other tools.

Happening this week:

• Austin is pre-gaming the ISOJ conference
• Montreal is hanging out at the pub
• Buenos Aires is reinventing election coverage

Worth a read:

• Plotly created a guide for using their new open source Python viz library called Plotly Express that makes interactive plots in a single function call (Plotly)
• Whenever an agency dumps hundreds of pages of documents at once, what tools do news orgs use to search through them on deadline to publish stories? Factful tested out seven different OCR tools and compared the results (Open News)
• A PhD student at the University of Missouri analyzed interviews from a survey on trust in news done by the Reynolds Journalism Institute and found that 77.8% of news readers said that balance is what separates good journalism from bad (RJI)

Today we are launching Plotly Express, a new high-level Python visualization library! Check out our announcement at https://t.co/mb6UNT2NeF or just watch this show reel of charts each made in a single line of Python: pic.twitter.com/DXrKwXrrTm

— plotly (@plotlygraphs) March 20, 2019

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