How can social media be more than just an afterthought for data-driven journalism (DDJ)? As a partner of the European Data Journalism Network (EDJN), our colleagues at DW Data have been exploring ways to attract readers and make DDJ stories more interesting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Here is a guest post with new insights by Kira Schacht.
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DW Innovation has joined a new, large-scale H2020 project that aims to bridge the gap between Copernicus DIAS providers and users of next-level digital applications.
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DW and a group of European partners in tech and academia have started building a new digital platform that will help improve situation awareness.
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If you are into DDJ, you have probably come across the NYT’s You Draw It series, where users have to draw the second half of a graph and thus interact with a data story. We have always liked this idea. And we thought that by adding augmented reality (AR) and Instagram face filters, we could develop it further. Our aim: Creating a new worthwhile form of interactive journalism – and great shareable content. Here is a quick recap of our Insta experiments, including the lessons we have learned.
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Good news: We have kicked off yet another exciting human language technology (HLT) project. It is an EU-funded research and innovation action (RIA) called SELMA, which stands for: Stream Learning for Multilingual Knowledge Transfer.
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TruBlo, an EU project co-run by DW Innovation, has started its first open call. The goal is to support concepts, ideas and demonstrators for trustable content that use blockchain/distributed ledger technology. TruBlo will distribute almost one million euros among applicants.
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