From unstructured data to structured journalism
- 1. From unstructured data to structured journalism Giuseppe Futia Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) April 12, 2016 Master in Giornalismo "Giorgio Bocca" di Torino
- 2. Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino Website: http://nexa.polito.it/
- 3. Communication Manager Website, social media, mailing-list
- 6. Presentation of Jonathan Stray (Journalist, data scientist) YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=z4wHiv4bs-Y
- 7. Who said What? Best tool for multi-lingual journalists #newsHack 2016 organized by BBC Connected Studio
- 8. Team • 1 Product manager • 1 Software engineer • 2 Researchers
- 9. Team • 1 Product manager • 1 Software engineer • 2 Researchers • And journalists…?
- 10. New York Times, BBC, Washington Post Source: Poynter.org
- 11. Using "machine learning," technologists at news outlets around the world are helping newsrooms eliminate extra time-consuming tasks and giving humans more time to do what they do best: reporting the news (Poynter.org)
- 13. Juicer BBC News Labs
- 15. Knowledge Map Washington Post
- 16. Panama papers leak Source: Wired.com
- 17. Panama papers leak • 11.5 million of documents – 4.8 million of mails – 4 million of database entries – 2 million of PDFs – 1 million of images – 320.000 text documents • 100 news organisations and 400 journalists
- 18. Panama papers processing • Sort and organise the files • Index these files • Bring out all of the metadata • Investigate data from the big data and analytical perspective
- 19. Panama papers result • The final database: 30 per cent of the original data size • Bring out entities: first names and second names • Analytics to find how these names refer to the documents
- 22. Data journalism as a framework
- 23. BBC News Labs Project “To help news organisations curate stories that scale, adapt and connect across platforms and use cases”