How to extract data from PDF files
Τρόποι και εργαλεία για την ανάγνωση αρχείων PDF και την εξαγωγή δεδομένων από αυτά, για διαφορετικά επίπεδα δυσκολίας.
Data sonification and the shift from charts to sound
Data sonification is making a comeback in journalism. We spoke with professionals about its development, future, and usefulness in the field.
How non-coding journalists can build web scrapers with AI (examples and prompts included)
A guide on non-coding journalists using AI to build web scrapers and access complex public data for their investigations.
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
Tech giants quietly tapped major news outlets’ YouTube videos to build expansive AI training sets, raising questions over consent.
“It’s a feature, not a bug” – How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias
Three years after ChatGPT’s debut, nearly half of newsrooms use AI despite ethical concerns, reflecting evolving attitudes across journalism and academia.
Nick Diakopoulos: Artificial intelligence and journalism beyond the hype
Professor Nick Diakopoulos speaks to iMEdD about how generative artificial intelligence is affecting newsrooms and journalism’s comparative advantage in content production. He comments on the competitive pressures media face in distribution and sees the opportunity for trust in journalism as still very much alive.
What we took away from this year’s European Data & Computational Journalism Conference
We attended the 5th European Conference on Data Journalism and Computational Journalism, held for the first time in Athens. Here, we gather some of the key takeaways.
Two satellite images and QGIS are enough to find how much a lake has shrunken
A guide for journalists on how to observe and measure the reduction of water reserves in water bodies, like the Aposelemi Dam in Crete, with the use and the analysis of satellite images.