We’ve recently returned from a trip to Dublin for DataJConf 2017 – the first European Conference on Data and Computational Journalism. Our course directors, Glyn and Martin were co-organisers of the conference, along with Bahareh Heravi of UCD. We first started talking to Bahareh about organising the conference sometime at the beginning of the year. […]
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Our Alumni: Nikita Vashisth – cutting edge in India
In our new series of posts we’re taking a look at some of our past students, where they’ve gone, and what they’re up to. First up is Nikita Vashisth, one of the graduates from the first year of our course in 2014/2015. Two years after leaving the course, Nikita is working with a cutting-edge Indian data […]
Chatbots in the Classroom: Education Innovation Research
The Computational and Data Journalism team has recently been awarded research funding from the University Centre for Education Innovation to investigate the use of chatbots in the classroom. The project “proposes the development of chat bots as part of the teaching and learning team to support learning and automate everyday issues to alleviate staff workload. […]
Visualising the Creative Industries in Cardiff: CUROP project
This summer, our team is running a project funded by the CUROP scheme here at Cardiff University. The Creative Cardiff team have collected a large amount of data on the creative industries in Cardiff, and are now looking for new ways to explore and communicate this data. Our summer project is aiming to do just that, bringing […]
Hacking VoterPower with the Bureau Local
Today we hosted one of several hackdays happening nationwide, organised by The Bureau Local. Journalists from The Bristol Cable joined up with students from the MSc in Computational and Data Journalism to analyse election data, hoping to uncover local data stories around the voters in their local constituencies. We’re pleased to be able to support one […]