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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My first in-person analogue workshop on how ho get the best results from working with language models for the local knowledge sharing festival 🥰 As someone who works mostly digitally, the process of creating objects and experience in the real world was very enjoyable.
1. Don't trust the robot
2. Context is key
3. Keep it short
4. Keep it to the point
5. You might be wrongCircle of people picture with polaroid cameraRobot face in the makingA person holding an adapted robot emoji in front of her face
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The European Correspondent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While EU citizens can move freely and settle anywhere within the Union, they cannot vote in national elections where they live, unless they are also citizens of that country.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I deleted my #Instagram account in March. As I was riding a bicycle down the river, it hit me. What a disgusting space it was. How completely at odds with my values. Partially, it was about what it did to me. How my thumb knew to find the icon seemingly by itself. How I felt powerless to resist.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Why I left Instagram
I deleted my Instagram account after realizing my thumb opened it by itself and I was creating content that did the same to friends — the beautiful things sat in machinery I no longer wanted to feed. ...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It might actually be nice 🌳 💆‍♀️ homolova.sk/posts/what-i...
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What if we got rid of cars?
Turning car parks into park parks using OpenStreetMap and a bit of imagination.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"If you have a period at least once every three months, it's okay." A doctor told me that once. Apparently, having four periods a year is enough reassurance to stop asking questions.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Missed the latest Pond session? Catch the full recording here and learn all about why context management is the skill you need to polish. youtu.be/BHD8Cv4PvrI
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Pondcast #6: How to code anything (with Ada & Johan)
What happens when five people use a simple prompt to ask AI for a snake game? They get five completely different games. The model namely fills the gaps with random choices. This video is about…
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is just disgusting. source: www.ftm.eu/articles/ira... Via @ftm.nl
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Manually creating a Markdown table in 2026 feels almost artisanal.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Figure 1.2: The chaotic pattern of many data science projects. Super excited to be reading "Test-Driven Data Analysis" by Nick Radcliffe (@njr0), this image made me laugh out loud Read it, buy it: book.tdda.info/book/chapter...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Glad you guys are having fun :D
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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/05/2026
In Mechelen for #Dataharvest26! The best conference for datajournalism! <3 @journalismarena.eu I'll be giving a 30mn session on how to use #openrefine and a local LLM to enhance data cleansing Sat 30 at 4:15pm. Join me and @checkfirst.network !! dataharvest26.sched.com/event/feff88...
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Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference: Beyond data cleaning: Enhancing OpenRefi...
View more about this event at Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Cartoons from our Code Anything session at #Dataharvest26 ❤️ by Pieter Fannes Session slides here: datafrosch.fun/slides/code-...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Slides from our "How to code anything" workshop at #Dataharvest26 datafrosch.fun/slides/code-...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Monday motivation hunting 🤠 : Anybody that regularly works with TED, FTS(Financial Transparency System) or the State Aid Transparency Public Search? I have the raw #data on the server with a dashboard interface but can't find the time to make it available. Please reach out if it'd be useful to you!
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🫘 Eating plant-based #food is one of the most straightforward ways to lower our greenhouse emissions. Agriculture is one of the most #emission heavy sector. Which is fair. We all need to eat. But not all calories eat the same hole into our #carbon budget. Read more: homolova.sk/posts/ode-to...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Confession of a former inbox-zero practicioner. There is so much freedom in this image.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Eight billion people cannot sustainably eat resource-intensive food every day. And we should not! Because #LegumesAreAwesome Read more: homolova.sk/posts/ode-to... #plantbased #vegan
An image of how we should change our diets to be more planet-friendly. Eat more cereals, more vegetables, more legumes, less meat and cheese
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are also at #Dataharvest26! Together with Johan Schuijt we will do some guided toe-dipping into the waters of working with large language models. dataharvest26.sched.com/event/2K5O7/... dataharvest26.sched.com/event/2LSMq/... Looking forward to see you in Mechelen! 👋
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
✨ New essay ✨ A single plant family can simultaneously reduce #emissions, improve soil health and provide some of the cheapest protein available. It's legumes! 🫘 On how changing our #protein source can change the world. Read more & get the recipes 🍲 homolova.sk/posts/ode-to... #legumesKickAss
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An ode to legumes
Even small seeds can reshape large systems.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Curious about how to create #maps for your stories, articles, or investigations? Join us for a free session exploring how maps can strengthen #data #storytelling and analysis. Join us Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CET via meet.google.com/vui-kziv-rbz
a cartoony map map of amphibian richness, showing the most richness in the amazones
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The AI's worldview shifts with input language. Read about the biases hiding in your AI-assisted analysis: datafrosch.fun/blog/bias-in... #LLM #bias
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The bias hiding in your AI | Data Frosch
LLMs are eager to please — and they bring biases that aren't always obvious. A health-data Pondcast with Claude Code, and what we learned about reading AI output critically.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🤖 This is what local models in production look like. We built trends.datafrosch.fun. It pulls 24 hours of Google search trends, embeds them locally with BGE-M3, translates the non-English ones, and projects everything into a 3D map. We talk about the pipeline here: youtu.be/T75MvOq8wmg
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🟠 Pondcast #5: Text embeddings and how to use them
What if you opened a map of what the world is searching for instead of a news website? In this Pond session, Ada and Johan walk through trends.datafrosch.fun - a tool that takes Google Trends RSS…
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Who is coming to the journalism festival in Innsbruck this week? Let's meet up! ☕ #journalismusfest
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What you eat matters as much as how much you eat. Last Christmas (🎶), I was making chocolate bonbons (heart shaped 💛), which meant one thing: a lot of white chocolate lying around. I have to confess, about half of it never really made it into the bonbons. 🫢 For science of course! 🧵👇
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Why do most restaurants serve worse food that I would cook at home? :/
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Today’s air travel news? ✈️ Explore via trends.datafrosch.fun #whatIsTheWorldSearchingFor #googleTrends #itsfriday
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
☕ Grab a coffee and come talk to us about embeddings next Monday! How can you use text embeddings in journalistic research and (textual) data exploration? What are your experiences, or what would you like to understand? #aiforjournalism #llm #journalism #textanalysis
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What’s the world searching for right now? Explore the past 24 hours in combined google trends and local news sources from 125 countries. Similar topics cluster together. Focus on the clusters or the outliers. 🐸 👉 trends.datafrosch.fun #dataviz #dataexploration worldnews #UMAP #localmodels
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🔥 My first publication with Correctiv.Europe! Even as Europe’s overall population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants. Check out how your municipality has grown or shrunk in the past 60 years: correctiv.org/en/europe/20...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🔥 My first publication with Correctiv.Europe! Even as Europe’s overall population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants. Check out how your municipality has grown or shrunk in the past 60 years: correctiv.org/en/europe/20...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
So I have moved most my coding to Claude Code these days. That does not mean I don't use other tools at all or that I don't think anymore. See me doing explorative analysis live on data I never saw before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnY... #AI #claude #datajournalism
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👀 Pondcast #4: Finding Stories in health expenses data with Ada
This is a "revenge challenge" from Jonathan: three health spending datasets Ada never looked at. In this session, Ada is exploring data almost purely with Claude code. Including: exploratory data…
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My thinking behind dedicating a significant portion of this year’s Dataharvest Data Skills track to #AI. dataharvest.eu/2026/04/16/w...
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“We choose to educate”: AI at Dataharvest
Arena’s Data Skills Co-ordinator, Adriana Homolová, outlines our data team’s stance on AI in the Dataharvest 2026 programme. Large language models and generative AI have rapidly become an ever-larger…
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
✴️ We are live now! 👉 meet.google.com/sim-ieny-wfd
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
✴️ Reminder! Join me today, 14:00 CET and I will show you how to find stories in the data. No matter how big or dirty, I am not afraid! Live. Uncensored. Raw. 🐾 See you there 👉 meet.google.com/sim-ieny-wfd Brought to you by 🪷The Pond🪷 : by and for nerds in the newsroom
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
amazing storytelling by @ashendruk.com (check out her newsletter too!) www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...
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AI chatbots know more about you than you realise
From a few basic questions, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. The privacy implications are profound.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Genius mumumelon.co
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"... I want to remind ourselves how little we can learn about our society through personal interactions alone, and how valuable statistics are in helping us build the rest of the picture." ourworldindata.org/limits-perso... #statistics #data
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The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well-documented statistics.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You tried ChatGPT, and it gave you code that looked right but produced wrong numbers, and you couldn't tell why. Sounds familiar? Come learn with me! datafrosch.fun/mentorship #datajournalism
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
No matter how big or dirty, I am not afraid! Join me Thursday 16 April 2026, 14:00 CET at 🪷The Pond🪷 and I will show you how to find stories in the data. Live. Uncensored. Raw. 🐾 Community link 🐸 lnkd.in/dnurjfCd Event link 👉 discord.com/events/14066...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Fresh from the press: DataFrosch newsletter including 2 exciting sessions for you in April! Read it and sign up of course :) datafrosch.beehiiv.com/p/the-pond-8... #datajournalism
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The Pond #8: Don't make unit mistakes!
Also: come learn about embeddings and how to find even more more stories in data!
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
On September 23 1999, after almost 10 months of travel to Mars, the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned and broke into pieces. Why? Two teams working on the navigation used different units. Prevent catastrophes: with a computer! datafrosch.fun/blog/unit-co... w @goorden.be
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Stop Making Unit Mistakes | Data Frosch
How attaching units to your calculations prevents costly mistakes — a lesson from the Mars Climate Orbiter and investigative journalist Thomas Goorden.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
♻️ Recycling plastic doesn't help the climate. At all. That's nor an opinion nor an Aprils fools joke. Recycling just delays incineration by a couple of years. The carbon ends up as CO2 either way. Learn more in the latest Pondcast with @goorden.be youtu.be/qE9GMVyRoEI
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Pondcast #3: Calculate CO2 emissions with Thomas Goorden
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🧪 You don't need a PhD to fact-check emissions numbers. @goorden.be (investigative journalist, physics background and a wonderful teacher) showed us at The Pond how three numbers from the periodic table let you sniff out bullshit in climate reporting. Full session on Youtube: youtu.be/qE9GMVyRoEI
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Pondcast #3: Calculate CO2 emissions with Thomas Goorden
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I built a tool! It's a little robot that makes personalized newsletters. Read about it here: datafrosch.fun/blog/rss-new... And try it out! RSS is not dead! #llm #tools #newsletter #rss
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One Newsletter to Rule Them All | Data Frosch
Building an AI-powered RSS digest with robots - aggregate multiple news sources into one personalized weekly newsletter.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🦜 #LLMs "will sand down specific, nuanced facts (which are statistically rare) and replace them with more generic, positive descriptions (which are statistically common)." Great article from #wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
oh, frogs are mostly boys in children's books! I did not know 🐸 Source: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What I love about investigative journalists is the fun and conversations with smart, curious, and open people In a time when the world feels like it’s moving backwards, being part of a community that strives to make it better feels like a blessing datafrosch.beehiiv.com/p/the-pond-4...
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🪷The Pond #4: On the road again
Ada is traveling Europe collecting interesting people, reading material and datasets.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
💃 Just a week left to sign up! This will be fun 🐸 datafrosch.fun/mentorship
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Data Journalism Mentorship | Data Frosch
1-on-1 mentorship for journalists & data professionals. Transform complex data into stories with personalized 8-week programs.
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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
go Ireland 👏👏👏 "[Data] shows that the pilot generated over €100 million in social and economic benefits, out of which €16.9 million was in social value from audience engagement, and €80 million was contributed through improved mental wellbeing." www.artshub.com.au/news/article...
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Basic Income for the Arts will rollout permanently in Ireland from 2026, massive win
Report from the three-year basic income pilot in Ireland found that the arts pays for itself.
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