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Thanasis Troboukis

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Project Manager Lab, Journalist

Thanasis Troboukis is a journalist. He has worked as a reporter and editor in Chief for some of the most successful Greek media. He set up the office of VICE Media in Greece, where he served as the Head of Content. His investigation about child trafficking in Greece was shortlisted for the Investigative Award of the European Press Prize 2017. He took part in the ICIJ’s cross border investigation of the Paradise Paper and later he was trained in Data Journalism at the LEDE program of Columbia Journalism School in New York, with a full scholarship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

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A conversation with one of the “founding fathers” of Artificial Intelligence

22.03.2021

Thanasis Troboukis
cover image Joshua Bengio

A few months before Yoshua Bengio's participation in the SNF Nostos Conference on August 26 and 27, 2021, on "Humanity and Artificial Intelligence," we discussed with him the future of "intelligent" computer systems, the effort to teach AI some common sense, and the possibilities and challenges of using such technologies.

Stories

Pandemic Death Toll Seems to Be Higher Than Reported

06.02.2021

Thanasis Troboukis
γράφημα με θανάτους κατά την πανδημία

Increase in excess mortality in Greece, where a mere 43% of excess deaths were confirmed to be associated with COVID-19

Stories

Greece Rapid Testing Map

28.01.2021

Thanasis Troboukis
map with rapid tests greece

A total of 2.433 positive samples were detected, with Xanthi (November 19) having the highest positivity rate.

Open Data

A dataset with rapid tests carried out in Greece

28.01.2021

Thanasis Troboukis
map with rapid tests greece

Data for more than 114,500 samples taken since September 25 in 213 regions of the country.

Stories

The geographical distribution of COVID-19 deaths

15.12.2020

Thanasis Troboukis
χάρτης με τη γεωγραφική κατανομή των θανάτων στην Ελλάδα από covid-19

We publish data on the geographical distribution of 3,214 deaths per regional unit.

Methodology

How the application monitoring the spread of the disease was created

10.12.2020

Kelly Kiki, Thanasis Troboukis, Dimitris Papaevagelou
Χάρτης κρουσμάτων της Ελλάδας, λεπτομέρεια

Work stages, sources/processing of data, tools and limitations regarding the development of iMEdD Lab’s web application tracking the pandemic in Greece and around the world.

Applications

The spread of the disease in Greece and worldwide

10.12.2020

Kelly Kiki, Thanasis Troboukis, Dimitris Papaevagelou
screenshot covid map

Constantly updated maps and charts showing the spread of the pandemic in our country and across the globe

Open Data

Open data on coronavirus in Greece

10.12.2020

Kelly Kiki, Thanasis Troboukis
Χάρτης κρουσμάτων της Ελλάδας, λεπτομέρεια

We gathered published data on the course of the infectious disease in our country from every available source and structured open datasets, which are freely available to journalists and researchers.

Methodology

Methodology for the geolocation of fires

10.12.2020

Thanasis Troboukis
map of greece forest fires

How we geolocated and mapped 9500 forest and agricultural fires that broke out in 2019.

Open Data

A dataset with fires that broke out across Greece in 2019

10.12.2020

Thanasis Troboukis
image of forest fires

Forest fires recorded last year by the fire service, along with longitude and latitude coordinates per incident.

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