It’s time, hacks and hackers! It’s election season not just in the US, but many regions of the world including India, Taiwan, Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

In response, many journalism orgs are sharing resources like Polling fundamentals and concepts, Election 2020 toolbox, and even a Stress management program for journalists.

Worth a read:

• Election day for the US is this week, but with the influx of mail-in votes, it will probably take longer than a day to tally the votes. The data viz tool Observable put together a visual explanation of how to extrapolate what the trailing candidate would need to win.
• Speaking of estimates, two data scientists explained what estimators are from a statistics perspective. They also go over what trade-offs the user makes as they choose their estimation method.
• GIJN shared some digital anonymization techniques one can use to protect privacy and prevent re-identification when utilizing a dataset that includes personal information

When one candidate in an election has some share of votes with some percentage of votes counted, how might we look at what the trailing candidate would need to win? https://t.co/lVnr4zeXWf pic.twitter.com/i9crE3fvhT

— TOoᴼᵒº˙⁰0₀ₒ.·ph (@tophtucker) October 27, 2020

Job postings:

• Anywhere - Managing Editor, The Plug
• Anywhere - Global Anti-Corruption Consortium Director, OCCRP
• New Zealand - Interactive Designer, Stuff
• Spain - Research Editor, Dow Jones
• UK - Deputy Head of Audience, The Sun
• US - Data Sourcing Contractor, data.world
• US - Multiple Engineering/UX jobs - Wall Street Journal
• US - Audience Development Project Manager, News Revenue Hub
• US - Audience Editor, ProPublica
• US - Temporary Assistant Audience Editor, ProPublica

Upcoming events:

• Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC / Dataharvest
• Nov 6-8, Online, nexHack Edtech Hackathon
• Dec 4-6, Online, Journalism & Women Symposium
• March 8, Online, MozFest

Other opportunities:

• November 8, IJ4EU awards for European investigations
• December 1, Harvard fellowship in journalism innovation
• December 18, Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship
• Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
• Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
• Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
• Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
• Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation
• Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
• Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response