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🚨 I've joined the data team! Sad to be leaving and all my amazing colleagues but excited to be back at the pink paper
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There's some great quick-turnaround graphics and cartography research and production by and in the spy ballon story today by and :
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The users who are willing to pay $100/month are the ones who think they can extract profits — ie, the scammers!
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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I'm particularly worried about the potential impact on the wonderful Nuzzle successor . No news from there yet.
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Ugh *"will be interesting to see how many Twitter feeds disappear next week".
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Anticipating this, I’ve been shifting my news reading back to RSS feeds. It‘a been surprisingly hard: many publishers don’t support RSS anymore, having become completely dependent on social media to distribute stories. Will be interesting Twitter feeds disappear next Wek.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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It really is remarkable, and remarkably telling, just how quickly and completely AI language and image generation wiped web3 out of the cultural consciousness
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New: Our latest visual story maps the supply chains of two weapons that changed the Ukraine war to reveal the complex web of companies being tested as the US defence industry returns to a wartime footing 🇺🇸🚀👇
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The will of the people prevails at the FT now too, which is that the word 'data' should be treated as singular, not plural
"Data is" - 74%
"Data are" - 14%
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FT style guide change just announced: "data" is now always singular, eg "The data shows that" rather than "the data show that".
A red-letter day. I've been tiresomely banging on about this for decades. For anyone opposed, I'd like to know what your agendum is.
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FT style guide change just announced: "data" is now always singular, eg "The data shows that" rather than "the data show that".
A red-letter day. I've been tiresomely banging on about this for decades. For anyone opposed, I'd like to know what your agendum is.
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Welcome to our very first edition of Datawatch (which loyal readers of the print edition will recognise at the chart of the day on the front page). This week we've looked at egg prices, the rise of independent voters, record art auctions and much more! ft.com/content/b43465
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BuzzFeed and CNET aren’t innovating: They’re using AI to reinforce an unfortunate status quo, where stories are produced to hit quotas and serve ads against—that is, they are produced because they might be clicked.
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In a conversation with about AI hype, I argue that the most worrisome uses of ChatGPT aren't malicious ones but rather everyday people and organizations using it to cut corners due to the pressures they face, like CNET's misguided experiment.
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we're hiring! the is looking for a data journalist to join our newsroom in new york:
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I am not sure the examples here are plagiarism or not, but it's definitely close enough to warrant serious attention.
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FT forecasting game: Can you predict the year ahead better than superforecasters?
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New: When news broke that CNET was publishing AI-written stories, readers had a lot of questions. But CNET staff are in the dark, too.
Red Ventures, which owns CNET, is following a lucrative SEO marketing play. And it's at the expense of the journalism:
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This week I dug into the UK's adoption system, which is in a midst of a crisis due to lack of funding, skilled labour shortages, and blocked up courts to name a few. This means children now wait YEARS to be adopted. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/67e57b1
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For the journalists out there! Check out the Generative AI in the Newsroom Challenge: medium.com/@/the-generati & please RT and share!
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Data journalists, come and work with us! BBC News is looking for a senior data journalist, permanent role, based in Birmingham. You will be joining an exciting, award-winning team with great friendly people. #ddj #datajournalism #journojobs careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Senio
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A scoop from me: Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of Stable Diffusion. The stock photo site claims Stable Diffusion "unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright" and has "commenced legal proceedings" in London
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Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here's how we fix that. My paper from my time at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism #a11y
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How can visual data journalism serve all audiences including blind and partially sighted people? This is the topic of a new Journalist Fellow paper by
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👨💻Read a summary and find the full paper here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/blind-news-aud
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Anyway, here's our story:
CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors
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I've long argued that extracting data from messy forms may be the killer application of AI to journalism. Here, applies GPT-3 to the problem, with really promising results.
robertorocha.info/getting-tabula
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As inflation drives up the price of funeral services, and more and more people struggle to make ends meet, I looked into the "cost-of-dying crisis" in some of the country's poorest areas for
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📢 My team at is looking for a new Data Scientist!
They will contribute to the whole chain of collection, transformation, documentation, and dissemination of data on the many topics we cover on Our World in Data.
Deadline: 12 February
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Calling all aspiring financial and global affairs journalists, our Paul McClean Graduate Trainee Programme is open for applications. The deadline is Sunday 15th Jan. Apply now at ft.com/graduates #graduatejob #journalismjobs #jobsinjournalism #journalism
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honestly my proudest achievement as a journalist, breaking a bank's machine-learning algorithm for summarizing the news
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hey @matt_levine they say in town (i.e. @FTAlphaville) that you broke the JP’s news processing model
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🧵1/3 NEW: This week's climate graphic(s) look at how the jet stream has been contributing to the extreme weather in the US and Europe at the start of 2023.
Read 's excellent report
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#dataviz #gistribe #cartography
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Looking for a freelance #datajournalist for a one-off piece at a fairly fast turnaround. DM for details. #dataviz
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Tale of two Germanys: supermarket owner in Friedberg, Bayern bans sale of fireworks, while a supermarket in Hohen-Neuendorf, Brandenburg accidentally burns down after negligent use of fireworks.
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Happy journalism year in review season to all who celebrate! Here’s a thread of the data/visuals/etc roundups I’ve seen so far, will continue updating as I find more 📊
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NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at the Arctic blast gripping the northern hemisphere. Read 's report
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#dataviz #ArcticBlast #gistribe
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“ChatGPT is a bullshitter. The essence of bullshit is unconcern with truth. It’s not a liar because to be a liar, you must know the truth and intend to mislead. ChatGPT is indifferent to the truth.” —
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Feel a little weird doing this, but I wanted to share a thread of some projects and articles I worked on this year that I was proud of:
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