AI for data storytelling

Artificial Intelligence is already being used in data journalism. For a field which is obsessed about trying to automate tedious tasks, AI is custom made.

Artificial Intelligence in data journalism projects often showcases some of the most imaginative aspects of how to use new tools to perform analyses that just weren’t possible before.

Often the AI is used to categorise images and texts, maybe social media posts or thousands of news reports. A human couldn’t possibly have time to read through those and would make mistakes. And mistakes can be made as AI can be dumb too, but the point is that it is getting better all the time.

How do you search for something that isn’t there? That is the issue El Universal wrestled with this project, which used natural language processing to analyse thousands of news stories and work out where the coverage gaps were in Mexico’s reporting of drug cartel murders. Full disclosure: this is a project I worked on.

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