Sam Leon
Sam Leon is co-founder of Data Desk, an investigative consultancy focused on climate and the commodities industry. He previously worked at Global Witness where he ran their digital investigations unit.
Scheduled Training
Climate Investigations Course: All Modules
A comprehensive programme of training, providing all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. Book here for a 20% discount on all modules.
Scheduled Training
Climate Investigations Course: ECOSINT
ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open-Source Intelligence Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a fixture in many newsrooms and can be applied to a wide range of investigative objectives. However, in many ways it is particularly useful when researching climate and environmental stories.
Scheduled Training
Climate Investigations Course: ECOSINT
ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open-Source Intelligence Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a fixture in many newsrooms and can be applied to a wide range of investigative objectives. However, in many ways it is particularly useful when researching climate and environmental stories.
Scheduled Training
Climate Investigations Course: All Modules
A comprehensive programme of training, providing all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. Book here for a 20% discount on all modules.
Scheduled Training
Data Investigations with Python
Harness the power of Python and the versatile data analysis library Pandas to supercharge your journalism and work with large data sources in an efficient and reproducible way. This course will be hands-on using Google Colab to write, run and manage the code you write as part of the course.
Scheduled Training
Data Investigations with Python
Harness the power of Python and the powerful data analysis library Pandas to supercharge your journalism and work with large data sources in an efficient and reproducible way. This course will be hands-on using Google Colab to write, run and manage the code you build as part of the course.
Summer Conference Event
— Workshop
Oil Trade Tracking. Hands-on.
Hands-on. This class will introduce participants to approaches to tracking and reporting on the opaque oil trade. The trainers will explain the value of commodity tracking through the presentation of some powerful stories that relied on the practice.
Summer Conference Event
— Workshop
Satellite Imagery: First Steps
Hands-on This talk will build participants' knowledge of the available sources of satellite imagery, what their respective strengths are and how to use them effectively. - Review of different sources: Planet, Sentinel-2, LandSat-7 and Maxar — we set out the main options in more detail in a recent Substack post.
Summer Conference Event
— Course
Data Journalism: Getting the Most out of Data Classes
We will be teaching a range of data journalism skills at the #CIJSummer Conference 2023. This session will give a brief description of the skills taught and is designed to help you identify the best sessions to attend, given your own experience level and your objectives for incorporating data-driven research into your work.
