Presentation at Master in Giornalismo "Giorgio Bocca" di Torino, Università degli Studi di Torino.

1. From unstructured data to
structured journalism
Giuseppe Futia
Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino
(DAUIN)
April 12, 2016
Master in Giornalismo "Giorgio Bocca" di Torino

2. Nexa Center for Internet &
Society at Politecnico di Torino
Website:
http://nexa.polito.it/

3. Communication Manager
Website, social media,
mailing-list

4. Research Fellow
GitHub account:
https://github.com/
giuseppefutia

5. Start with Why

6. Presentation of
Jonathan Stray
(Journalist, data scientist)
YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=z4wHiv4bs-Y

7. Who said What?
Best tool for multi-lingual
journalists
#newsHack 2016
organized by
BBC Connected Studio

8. Team
• 1 Product manager
• 1 Software engineer
• 2 Researchers

9. Team
• 1 Product manager
• 1 Software engineer
• 2 Researchers
• And journalists…?

10. New York Times, BBC,
Washington Post
Source: Poynter.org

11. Using "machine learning," technologists
at news outlets around the world are
helping newsrooms eliminate extra
time-consuming tasks and giving
humans more time to do what they do
best: reporting the news (Poynter.org)

12. Editor NYTimes Labs

13. Juicer BBC News Labs

14. Linked Data Cloud
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Linked_data

15. Knowledge Map Washington Post

16. Panama papers leak Source: Wired.com

17. Panama papers leak
• 11.5 million of documents
– 4.8 million of mails
– 4 million of database entries
– 2 million of PDFs
– 1 million of images
– 320.000 text documents
• 100 news organisations and 400 journalists

18. Panama papers processing
• Sort and organise the files
• Index these files
• Bring out all of the metadata
• Investigate data from the big data and
analytical perspective

19. Panama papers result
• The final database: 30 per cent of the original
data size
• Bring out entities: first names and second
names
• Analytics to find how these names refer to the
documents

20. TellMeFirst http://tellmefirst.polito.it

21. Public Contracts http://public-
contracts.nexacenter.org/

22. Data journalism as a framework

23. BBC News Labs Project
“To help news organisations
curate stories that scale, adapt
and connect across platforms
and use cases”

24. Thanks!
Mail
giuseppe.futia@polito.it
GitHub Repository
https://github.com/giuseppefutia/