The Pulitzer Center offers grants to journalists undertaking investigative stories related to #science #misinformation, science #denial, and the spread of #pseudoscience. All forms of #investigativejournalism are welcome, including #datajournalism, #radio, #podcasts, #news and #documentary videos. Potential grantees with solutions for reaching audiences on platforms such as #Instagram or #TikTok are also encouraged to apply. There is no set budget range and the application deadline is rolling.

Welcome to the Amazon Underworld!

#amazon #nature #data #datajournalism

https://infoamazonia.org/en/2023/08/03/welcome-to-the-amazon-underworld/

Excited to announce the #Covid Tracking Project Archive housed at the @UCSF Archives and Special Collections is now part of an open source course teaching the conceptual foundations of data journalism! Read more about this “course-in-a-box” 👇

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/ctp-archive-open-source-data-journalism-course-in-a-box/

#datajournalism #publichealth

#EU #AI #Algorithms #FraudDetection #DataJournalism #Welfare #AlgorithmicBias: "It has been a challenging endeavour that has involved more than a hundred public records requests across eight European countries. In March of 2023, we published a four-part series co-produced with WIRED examining the deployment of algorithms in European welfare systems across four axes: people, technology, politics, and business. The centrepiece of the series was an in-depth audit of an AI fraud detection algorithm deployed in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

Far-reaching access to the algorithm’s source code, machine learning model and training data enabled us to not only prove ethnic and gender discrimination, but also show readers how discrimination works within the black box. Months of community-level reporting revealed the grave consequences for some of the groups disproportionately flagged as fraudsters by the system.

We have published a detailed technical methodology explaining how exactly we tested Rotterdam’s algorithm with the materials we had. Here, we will explain how we developed a hypothesis and how we used public records laws to obtain the technical materials necessary to test it. And, we will share some of the challenges we faced and how we overcame them."

https://pulitzercenter.org/how-we-did-it-unlocking-europes-welfare-fraud-algorithms

@cfaworkers
There are a number of #journalists in the #fediverse that right about #labor (or #labour if you are British) and even some #DataJournalism , where databases and content like yours can be published.

When, where and how to see the #LochNessMonster – based on 1,500 years worth of data!
Fun piece of #DataJournalism from the #PressAndJounal - a newspaper in the North East of #Scotland
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/5865826/loch-ness-monster-sightings/

Disinformation-for-hire: Kenyan Odanga Madung uses data to uncover a shadow economy

https://www.dw.com/en/disinformation-for-hire-kenyan-odanga-madung-uses-data-to-uncover-a-shadow-economy/a-66189253?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#disinformation #datajournalism #DWAkademie #innovationfordialogue #Kenya

Les naissances le 1ᵉʳ janvier dans les données de l’état civil racontent une histoire de l’immigration en France

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/07/10/les-naissances-le-1er-janvier-dans-les-donnees-de-l-etat-civil-racontent-une-histoire-de-l-immigration-en-france_6181357_4355770.html #datajournalism #data #demography #immigration #france

🚨 We have a great short-to-medium term #datajournalism contract going with @360info_global!

We want to do more stories for regional audiences, and we need someone who can help us find them and dig the stories out of the data. We're looking to hire someone to work either in the office or remotely in the back half of this year. We're pretty flexible in terms of weekly load vs. duration too!

If you're someone with #rstats, #python or other #data skills who's keen to chase data-driven stories with us, get in touch!

➡️ https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/653272/data-journalist-360info-contractor

https://aus.social/@360info_global@newsie.social/110620177855669084

Blogged:
Exploring Initial Teacher Training data with Datasette
Learning some core features of Datasette, using a small but interesting set of data from the DfE #Datasette #datajournalism #100DaysToOffload
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2023/06/14/exploring-initial-teacher-training-data-with-datasette/

Alla scoperta di Karachi: come i giornalisti utilizzano mappe e dati per indagare sui problemi in una metropoli moderna

@giornalismo

Le mappe sono essenziali per Mahim Maher che, dice, può così "vedere un'intera città che altrimenti mi sarebbe stata negata". E il #datajournalism le ha permesso di fornire ai lettori informazioni concrete sui problemi della città e, combinando le due cose, ha trovato un nuovo modo di riferire sui fastidiosi problemi di Karachi.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/06/uncovering-karachi-how-journalists-use-maps-and-data-to-investigate-problems-in-a-modern-metropolis/

#GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #Journalism #DataJournalism: "A brief roundup of tips and examples of using ChatGPT and generative AI for journalism (especially data journalism) - presentation from DataHarvest 2023"
https://www.slideshare.net/onlinejournalist/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-in-journalism

This is an incredible tool - check out today’s weather in your community & how it compares over history https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2023/climate-dashboard/ #climate #datajournalism #data #climatechange

#AI #GenerativeAI #DataVisualization #DataJournalism #Graphs #GraphMaker: "So far GraphMaker has shown some potential but I don’t think my editors would be impressed. Maybe the AI performs better when I just throw some data at it and let it do its thing? This would be helpful: often I have to take a big dataset and try to figure out how to best visualise its contents. Can the computer do that?

I picked straightforward data: first, the crypto data from earlier but, to make it easier, only containing the Bitcoin market value over time. GraphMaker produces a non-sensical histogram (see below, left). How about the labour productivity numbers? The AI returns yet more text."

https://view.e.economist.com/?qs=f80bf39f4387cc4d4fa78a7fad47c55505cda24c45d2d5b201fbf202179c04d00978194ffe3b49a675dc349ec5df9b4e6288acc31ec5c2c7b3814c2a5a46b13e7a178ab5d145e699ad55b95018a836a4

RT by @E15news: Ochutnávka tipovací aplikace!🎉🎇
@E15news #datajournalism #dataviz #inflace

Insightful piece of interactive #DataJournalism that explores #privacy breaches and the concept of #data augmentation, from @jules, Ben Spraggon (bspraggon@twitter.com) and Matt Liddy (mattliddy@twitter.com) at the ABC Story Lab.

I was flabbergasted at how many #DataBreaches were linked to my email address, and the types of information that was known about me.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/data-breaches-your-identity-interactive/102175688

Hm, interesting.
I would like this to be true.
But the situation in the Mediterranean does not feel like it..

More @jburnmurdoch #DataJournalism in @FT

Progressives are winning the immigration debate — but it doesn’t feel like it - @ https://on.ft.com/3LuLsoI via @FT

I will host a session on network analysis at #Dataharvest and include Gephi Light by @ouestware. For that I've built a small service to turn CSV files into GEXF files, and would be happy for all testing: https://lasseedfast-csv2gexf-app-k9roda.streamlit.app
#DataScience #DataJournalism #gephi

I will host a session on network analysis at #Dataharvest and include Gephi Light by @ouestware. For that I've built a small service to turn CSV files into GEXF files, and would be happy for all testing: https://lasseedfast-csv2gexf-app-k9roda.streamlit.app
#DataScience #DataJournalism #gephi

»Visual and Dynamic Arrangements of Narratives« funded by @bmbf_bund has come to an end with a major update of the project website documenting activities and outcomes over last 3.5 years!

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/vidan/

Big thanks to perfect partners civity Management Consultants and @tazgetroete

#vidanfhp #scrollytelling #datavis #datajournalism #datastories