Simon Rogers
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AI for data storytelling
Artificial Intelligence is already being used in data journalism. For a field which is obsessed about trying to automate tedious tasks, AI is custom made. Data storytelling and journalism have always been at the forefront of technology, first to adopt the newest gadgets and techniques. When VR devices launched, data journalists at the WSJ designed … Continue reading
A Data Journalist in Ukraine
Anatoliy Bondarenko is Data editor at Texty.org.ua, an award-winning news and data site in Ukraine, from where he joins Alberto and Simon to discuss his life in a war zone as a data journalist. His team’s work to analyse misinformation has won a Sigma data journalism award for best News Application and they are still producing great data journalism … Continue reading
How to make a multi-screen interactive
Sometimes you’ll want to join more than one map, chart or other visual together — but if you’re not a developer it can be a little tricky. This is where the iframe scaffolder by Paris-based developer from Journalism++ Pierre Romera comes in. I made this map — used by Mother Jones — using the tool, which made it simple to … Continue reading
Twitter Reverb: how we made a new #dataviz tool
Anybody who tells you that working with big data is straightforward is probably lying. Often, what you’re trying to do is to filter it down, make it simpler and easier to deal with. Twitter data is no exception—there are more than 500 million tweets sent every day and if you’re “non-eng” (not an engineer), that is … Continue reading
How to put girls off from all forms of programming/tech by Emma der Mulqueeny
How to put girls off from all forms of programming/tech by Emma der Mulqueeny.
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