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Name: NICAR25: Go big with GitHub Actions: Scale up your newsroom’s data pipelines
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Price: 40.00 USD
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NICAR25: Go big with GitHub Actions: Scale up your newsroom’s data pipelines

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Description

Thursday, March 6, from 2:15 - 5:45 p.m.

Room: St. Croix I

Cost: $40

Instructors: Dana Chiueh, Minnesota Star Tribune; Iris Lee and Ben Welsh, Reuters

Take this three-hour class to learn how journalists deploy massive data pipelines at zero cost using GitHub’s powerful Actions framework.

You will get hands-on experience creating an automated system that can collect, process and publish a gigantic dataset with ease.

Ben Welsh, Iris Lee and Dana Chiueh will teach you how to:

Schedule an automated task
Scrape and store data from a newsworthy source
Scale up to run hundreds of tasks in parallel
Publish a data dashboard to share your work
Extend GitHub’s free system to access gigantic amounts of computing power

Prerequisites

Seats are limited, and this class requires pre-registration. Students do not need to be programming experts, but they should have at least some experience editing code and working with GitHub. Don’t talk yourself out of attending. If you’re interested and have a good attitude, you are qualified to join.

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