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Main Authors: Shearer, Matt, Simon, Basile, Geiger, Clément
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05764
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author Shearer, Matt
Simon, Basile
Geiger, Clément
author_facet Shearer, Matt
Simon, Basile
Geiger, Clément
contents We created a software enabling journalists to define a set of criteria they would like to see applied regularly to a constantly-updated dataset, sending them an alert when these criteria are met, thus signaling them that there may be a story to write. The main challenges were to keep the product scalable and powerful, while making sure that it could be used by journalists who would not possess all the technical knowledge to exploit it fully. In order to do so, we had to choose Javascript as our main language, as well as designing the code in such a way that it would allow re-usability and further improvements. This project is a proof of concept being tested in a real-life environment, and will be developed towards more and more accessibility.
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spellingShingle Datastringer: easy dataset monitoring for journalists
Shearer, Matt
Simon, Basile
Geiger, Clément
Computers and Society
We created a software enabling journalists to define a set of criteria they would like to see applied regularly to a constantly-updated dataset, sending them an alert when these criteria are met, thus signaling them that there may be a story to write. The main challenges were to keep the product scalable and powerful, while making sure that it could be used by journalists who would not possess all the technical knowledge to exploit it fully. In order to do so, we had to choose Javascript as our main language, as well as designing the code in such a way that it would allow re-usability and further improvements. This project is a proof of concept being tested in a real-life environment, and will be developed towards more and more accessibility.
title Datastringer: easy dataset monitoring for journalists
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05764