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Sub-editors: learn to stop worrying and love the machine

Shane Creevy, head of editorial at journalism/AI company Kinzen, believes that the always-tenuous sub-editor role could be in for a revival, as they are perfectly positioned to act as the gatekeeper for the burgeoning machine learning in journalism sector. "The sub-editor is the sapien in the mac...

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

From zero to data scientist

So, you wanna be a data scientist? Terence S, with all of two years of data science learning under his belt, takes us through what he'd learn, in what order, if he were to start again. His list of maths, programming and algorithms is a pretty solid start for anyone wanting to jump in. Get learnin...

Jason Norwood-Young

2 months ago

Machine learning on the database

Python? We don't need no stinkin' Python! Data guy Dario Radečić (who we featured recently for trying out R) shows us how to run our machine learning where our data lives -- in the actual database. In this case, he relies heavily on Oracle's machine learning tech baked into its hosted solution, s...

Jason Norwood-Young

2 months ago

AI’s coming for my job

Let's face it, most day-to-day coding is copying-and-pasting from StackOverflow into VSCode. Microsoft's new supercomputer skips out the middle bit -- the meaty bit doing the clicking -- and just writes code based on the very many previous examples for whatever you're hoping to achieve. Software ...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 months ago

You could be using Javascript for data science. (But should you?)

Javascript has quietly been taking over the world, so why not data science? Italian researcher Cristiano Fontana takes us through a sample Node.JS app just to prove that it can be done, and it's particularly interesting to me since I've been fiddling with this stuff quite heavily -- particularly ...

Jason Norwood-Young

4 months ago

More machine learning for journalists

There's an emerging body of online resources designed specifically to help journalists master AI and algorithms, and its growing at a fair old pace. The latest entry comes from Google News Initiative and the Pols thinktank at the London School of Economics, and apparently is so sophisticated it c...

6 months ago

Machine learning for the newsroom made easy

There's plenty of online resources for journalists who want to learn how to wrangle data for their stories, but courses can feel a little irrelevant when the examples involve iris petals or decades-old fuel consumption data. Investigate.ai is different. Not only is it delightfully "non-threatenin...

7 months ago