C+J Symposium 2014

Idea: Leverage news nerds' skills to make journos' lives easier.

Postulates:

• The machine is excellent at executing repetitive tasks
• Coding is a super-power allowing to handle things a human couldn't
• The "hacks and hackers" paradigm seems to generate great results

• Helping journalists to talk to their audiences:
  linked data, news recommendations and personalisation
• Helping journalists to find stories:
  monitoring new sources of informations

News coverage and associated concepts
for each candidate

Computer-assisted journalism isn't requiring technical proficiency from journos

It's also providing tools for them to use, and assistance in their research

JavaScript and Node for (re-)usability

Parametrised queries and comparisons of data...
And notifications when defined events happen

Monitoring crime statistics for the
Greater London area
Alert when monthly stats show
a rise or a fall of 25%...
compared to yearly average

So far, email is used for notifications