#5 Dataviz – Telling Stories with Data

We're presenting a great event before going into summer break.

Data in the area of journalism.
We are hosted by Público, one of Portugal's great and renowned newspapers. The place couldn't be more suitable to enjoy two very interesting talks and to participate in a panel discussion on data in journalism with 3 additional journalists.

18:30 👋 Welcome
18:40 🎙 Ana Pinto Martinho (Research Assistant, CIES-IUL)
19:10 🎙 Sebastião Miranda (Senior Software Engineer, Priberam)
19:30 🍽️ Break / Networking
19:50 💬 Panel Discussion with our two speakers and three additional journalists: Rita Costa (Público), Rui Barros (Renascença), Raquel Albuquerque (Expresso)
21:00 📊 End of Event

******* About the Panel Discussion *******

Access to qualitative and open data, communicate complex information to an audience with little numerical literacy will take part of this panel discussion as well as other topics and current strategies and challenges.

Rita Costa, Público
Rui Barros, Renascença
Raquel Albuquerque, Expresso
Moderated by Sara and Coro

******* Data Vis for Journalists: The Growing Pains *******

The Portuguese media landscape still has a long way to go in terms of data journalism. For many newsrooms it is not a priority and those who rely on it have problems finding people with the right skills. What are the biggest challenges for newsrooms and journalists working with data and data visualization? Is there a problem with data visualization? The lecture deals with the main problems and challenges in the field of data journalism, as well as access to data and its importance for journalistic work.

***About Ana Pinto Martinho ***

She has been working as a journalist for more than a decade. Currently she is the editor of the portuguese EJO website and simulatneously teaches Data Journalism at ISCTE-IUL. She directed the “iGOV” and “ – Public Administration” media outlets and worked with other media such as “Diário de Notícias”, “RTP Informação”, “Sol”, “InformationWeek” and “Semana Informática”. With a degree in Social Communication (UBI) and a Master in Communication Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE), she is currently working on her PhD in Communication Sciences at ISCTE. Her research interests include connection between big data, data and journalism.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anapintomartinho/?originalSubdomain=de

Developing Tools and Data Visualizations for Multilingual Media Monitoring

We'll discuss the challenges in approaching the problem of multilingual media monitoring using machine learning and data visualization techniques. Media monitoring is essential to any organization seeking to gather insight and make important strategic decisions based on what's happening in the world at a given time. Advances in AI and machine learning have enabled the development of automatic systems to facilitate this task, but critical decisions must ultimately be made by expert humans. In this context, data visualization plays the critical role of surfacing the insights present in the data and bridging the gap between machine learning and decision making.

*** About Sebastião Miranda ***

Sebastião works in the R&D department of Priberam, having taken leading roles in several R&D projects over the past few years. He specializes in design, development and full-stack integration of Natural Language Processing systems into applications in the Media, Legal and Healthcare industries – He is actively searching for new opportunities for transferring state-of-the-art research results into successful products. Sebastião holds an MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), 2014.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebasti%C3%A3o-miranda-2b276a68/
https://www.priberam.com/

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Big thanks to Público for hosting our 5th event and to Priberam as well Social Data Lab for sponsoring us.