Jonathan Soma, Columbia University
Contact: js4571@columbia.edu • @dangerscarf
Sites: Lede Program • jonathansoma.com • Practical AI for Investigative Journalism • Bad PDFs
Learn to scrape, extract and analyze data using Python
Exploring what AI can and can't do when working with structured data
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Pandas is the most common tool that programmers use for analyzing data. And if that wasn't good enough for you: AI uses it, too!
Working with data in the real world is an awful, awful experience. Let's work on some spreadsheets about Kosovo's privatisation efforts.
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How can AI help with newsroom tasks?
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Making the best of data from the internet and bad, ugly data from PDFs
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Created for Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Summer School by Jonathan Soma
