The power of “positive deviant” data investigations
How good outliers can expose systemic misconduct or policy failure
How close is the nearest school? Mapping distances across Greece
How far away is the nearest school? We used secondary schools across rural Greece as a case study to map distances to an essential service and demonstrate how isodistances can be calculated and visualized on a map.
Opening the “black box” with explainable AI – a conversation with Menna El-Assady
With artificial intelligence tools having overwhelmed work routines and even our daily lives, Menna El-Assady, computer science professor and head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation Lab of ETH Zurich, explains what we should avoid, what are the real questions and how we can understand what really happens inside AI models.
From weeks of work to days: How I rebuilt two data journalism projects with AI
Award-winning Italian data journalist Jacopo Ottaviani explains how he leveraged GenAI to reproduce and update two civil journalism data visualisations.
Retrieving and processing OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is a "treasure trove" hiding in plain sight for any journalistic mapping project. We present how one can retrieve and process OpenStreetMap data using Python or QGIS.
Meet the journalists training the AI models that might replace them
“If [models] were a vehicle, AI would be the car and humans would be the fuel behind the whole thing,” says one of the reporters who’s worked for Meta
How to get “live” data in Google Sheets for free and with just a few lines of code
With Google Apps Script and a little vibecoding, we build a small data-collection pipeline in a cloud-based spreadsheet that runs without our intervention.
Fire News Alerts Greece: Real-time wildfire updates on Telegram
An automated Telegram channel, Fire News Alerts Greece, sends real-time notifications about new wildfires and de-escalations of active fire fronts.
Guide to mapping analysis using QGIS
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