In this session , three speakers present skills or tools that could be valuable in your next investigation.
1) How to create compelling before-and-after visualizations of satellite images using free tools. We'll walk through a basic workflow and share tips to quickly visualize change over time — no prior geospatial knowledge needed!
2) How to reveal metadata and other hidden information in PDF documents. We will walk our audience through the command line tool that can be used to explore PDFs in depth, and address issues that a journalist faces when they upload a PDF to an investigative tool like the open source Aleph and discover that the OCR has produced no text output.
3) How journalists can use AI to build a customized assistant that digs through a large number of documents. In this skillshare, you will get examples of a combination of skills and tools to screen, systematize, and analyse content in a cross-border investigation.
4) AI-powered search through audio - how do you find what you want without falling prey to hallucinations? Using the example audio transcription with Whisper, we showcase the issues of search through audio and how we've solved it in several recent use-cases.
Happy to share and learn about finance, business models, fundraising, processes, systems, and transparency in nonprofits. It doesn't need to be boring or terribly serious ;)
Alex is a senior open-source developer. She has worked on civic technology and tools for activists and journalists. She is currently proud & happy to be part of the Data and Research Center. She is involves in digital rights advocacy in Romania as a member of apti.ro - the Association... Read More →
Director of Technology, Data and Research Center – DARC
Simon leads the investigative tooling development, including OpenAleph, at the Data and Research Center (DARC). In mid-2023, Simon founded DARC's predecessor, the independent tech organization investigativedata.io. Prior to that, he helped various newsrooms and research teams across... Read More →
Federico Acosta Rainis is a data specialist at the Pulitzer Center's Environment Investigations Unit. Previously an IT consultant, he transitioned into journalism a decade ago, working with La Nación in Argentina, where he has contributed to award-winning projects. Federico received... Read More →
Head the datajournalism lab at the local newspaper iTromsø. We use AI to make new editorial tools and products for 70 newspapers in the Polaris media group ASA.Interested in Agentic RAG, LLM, Nocode AI, Recommender systems. Member of the AI Journalism lab at J+ CUNY. Open for Ai... Read More →
