Data is, essentially, information. Computerisation means the quantity of data flying around is vast, so for a journalist to find a nugget of information that is a news story in itself, or that will stand up the story you think you already have, can be overwhelmingly difficult. Machine learning-based technology can help.
And now that anyone can film or photograph what’s happening in front of them and upload it to the internet in moments, news organisations are deploying AI-based techniques to verify information and footage or to help identify someone who features in it.
This session reveals how investigative journalists go about using data to find and report news stories. It includes demonstrations of the ICIJ’s Datashare platform as used in the Panama Papers and FinCen Files exposΓ©s, and of how facial recognition technology has been used by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to reveal the identities of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
