Matilda Davies
Matilda Davies has worked at The Times and The Sunday Times as a data journalist since 2021, specialising in data-led investigations. She has won several awards for her investigations, tech reporting and environmental journalism. Davies regularly speaks at global conferences about her work, new techniques and the future of data journalism, for organisations including DataWrapper, Vilnius TechFusion and the Night Time Industries Association.
Summer Conference Event
— Talk
Meta and Me: Holding tech companies to account with SARs
Tech companies are harvesting a terrifying amount of personal data from users all the time – and the practice is opaque by design. This talk will look at routes to discovering what data they hold. In particular, we’ll explore how to use subject access requests (SARs) combined with data analysis and other journalistic techniques to paint a picture of how tech and social media companies see and categorise us all.
Summer Conference Event
— Course
Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]
Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners (part I) and intermediates (parts II and III).
Summer Conference Event
— Class Training
Data Journalism: Spreadsheets, R, Python. What should I learn?
At this session you can learn what each data journalism course will teach you and which one you should select. A data journalism beauty contest. Spreadsheets - Hands-On. Beginners. R - Hands-On.
