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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 15/05/2025

One of the things I love most about pre-ordering books is that I forget about them until release day. I got mine this week and it felt like a surprise gift to myself 😁📚 Get yours today! 👇🏽

My hand holding a hardcover copy of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, written by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 11/03/2025

Auditing #AI algorithms for bias 🧵 9/11 Speakers: @joannaskao.bsky.social, Hilke Schellmann, Varsha Bansal & @mtdukes.bsky.social Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Be sure to also check out the AI Accountability Network! pulitzercenter.org/journalism/i... #NICAR25

Screenshot of a slide about aspects to consider in different AI development stages. Details in following text.

Data stage: loss of privacy/consent, surveillance capitalism, labor exploitation, erosion of IP; company & government actors; individuals and workers as impacted people

Compute stage: energy/water use, mineral extraction, emissions, geopolitics; company, government, and investor actors; communities, planet, and citizens as impacted people

AI models stage: embedded abuse, automation, embedded bias, errors/hallucinations; company, talent, and investor actors; individuals, communities, and businesses as impacted individuals.

Applications stage: surveillance, job loss/degradation/discrimination, mis/disinformation; individual, business, and government actors; communities, consumers, democracies, and workers as impacted people

The AI Accountability Network at the Pulitzer Center offers a variety of resources for reporters. More details in text to follow.

Fellowship: 10-months, part-time, October 2025 - July 2025
Grants: Rolling, year-round
Resources: Blueprints so you can replicate
AI Spotlight Series: Free training for reporters and editors on how to cover AI

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 04/03/2025

The #NICAR25 interactive calendar just got an update -- there are now 215 sessions! #ddj Make sure you don't miss the two newest additions! ☑️ 1193: Don't let go!: The challenges and benefits of continuing your data coverage (tagging @amyafan.bsky.social) ☑️ 3043: Cleaning data with OpenRefine

Don't let go!: The challenges and benefits of continuing your data coverage

Description: A moderated panel on the challenges and benefits of following a story, and getting multiple stories out of the same or related data sets -- sometimes over the course of months or years. We’ll go through recent examples and discuss how we structured our continuing coverage, how we were able to return to and extend the original data, how we made it work with our newsroom’s editorial strategy, and how we tried to get the most out of every piece.

Speakers: Rosie Cima - Big Local News, Amy Fan - Independent journalist, Weihua Li - Bloomberg News, Tom McGinty - Wall Street Journal

Cleaning data with OpenRefine

Description: Learn how to explore, clean and reshape data using OpenRefine, a versatile tool that's well-suited for data novices and power users alike. This session is good for people with basic experience working with data. Laptops will be provided.

Speaker: Cody Winchester, IRE & NICAR

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

The #RShiny calendar tool is handy for exploring #NICAR2025 sessions, but it also helps you export your selected sessions to a calendar file (.ics)! tiny.cc/nicar-2025 Example workflow: 1. Keyword search "accessibility" 2. Select all sessions 3. Click the "Download Calendar" button #RStats #RLadies

View displaying the selection of 3 different accessibility sessions mentioned earlier in the thread, and the Download Calendar button that now appears on the top right of the page. Clicking it would download a .ics file for use in a calendar of your choosing.

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

And maybe you want to see which #NICAR2025 sessions you'd miss if you slept in on Saturday. This example selects Saturday, uses the Hours slider to select the morning hours, & then selects "No" under Recorded Session. This view could help you make an informed decision before hitting snooze! 😴

Shiny app table view displaying Saturday morning sessions that won't be recorded. Sessions include topics on chatbots, VisiData, sports myths, finding narratives in a pile of documents, mapping with R or Python, visualization R packages, networking for international journalists, education data, and Airtable

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

You can use the Session Type box to look up different types of #NICAR2025 sessions. Panels are one type of session, and there are others like networking, demo, and hands-on sessions. I'm eyeing the hands-on sessions like 👀👀👀 Note that the skill level required for each session is displayed too!

Shiny table results after selecting Hands-on from the dropdown menu in the Session Type field. Results include sessions on ChatGPT, SvelteKit, Google Sheets, IRS data, immigration data, Python, disaster data, DNS searching, and georeferencing

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

You can use the calendar tool to search for specific #NICAR2025 speakers too, by typing their name in the Speakers box. Here I look up @karenho.bsky.social who was on the accessibility panel from the earlier post. It turns out Karen is also a speaker in a session on mental health in journalism! 👏🏽

Looking up Karen K. Ho in the Shiny app shows two results in the table. One session titled Building a Culture of Accessibility and Why It Matters and another titled Navigating Your Mental Health in Journalism.

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

I'm looking fwd to this #NICAR2025 panel session on acccessibility! I used the calendar tool to search for keyword "accessibility," & then clicked the little info icon to learn more ➡️ @karenho.bsky.social @joannaskao.bsky.social @stacykess.bsky.social @joemurph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/joem...

Shiny app showing results from a search for keyword "accessibility" which include three sessions:

Getting the most out of Datawrapper, Building a culture of accessibility and why it matters, and Using open-source tools to investigate public transit

Shiny app pop-up window for the panel session titledd Building a Culture of Accessibility and Why It Matters. Description and speakers to follow in the alt text.

Description: When we're writing, filming or recording a story, are we thinking about how we can make sure everyone can understand our work? Accessibility goes beyond alt-text and screen readers. This session will discuss best practices for making sure your journalism is accessibile to people of all abilities and backgrounds, and why it should be a necessary and intentional part of all the work you do.

Speakers: Karen K. Ho from ARTnews, Joanna Kao from the Pulitzer Center, Stacy Kess from Equal Access Public Media, and Joe Murphy from NBC News

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

My first #NICAR2025 conf is right around the corner & there are 213+ sessions! 🤩📊 If you're like me & prefer a calendar view, I made a tool just for you! It's an #RShiny app that lets you search & select sessions to export as an .ics calendar file GIve it a try! tiny.cc/nicar-2025 #RStats #RLadies

Shiny app table of NICAR 2025 sessions, displaying fields including session type, time, length, skill level, location, and whether the recorded. The interactive options to filter the sessions include a keyword search bar, a radio button for the day of the conference, a slider for the time of day, a search bar for speakers, session type, and skill level, and lastly, a radio button for whether the session will be recorded. Official conference schedule is posted online at https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/index.html

About page of the Shiny app which has information about me and the app, about the conference, and about the main packages used to build the app. Text displayed to follow:

Hi there! My name is Silvia Canelón and this is my first time attending NICAR. ️👋 If you see me around, please say hello! You can also get in touch on Bluesky or through my website. This app was built with ♥ using the official NICAR 2025 schedule, Shiny, and the R packages below. You can find the full source code for this app on GitHub (adapted from an app created by Garrick Aden-Buie).

NICAR 2025
March 6-9, 2025 — Minneapolis, MN

From Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE):
Join us for our annual data journalism conference where you'll have access to trainings on some of the most powerful tools a journalist can have in their kit. Sessions will also feature the most tried and tested data analysis techniques and investigative skills out there.

Packages section of the About page displaying 6 packages: Shiny, BSLib, RVest, Lubridate, Glue, and R6. More details to follow.

Shiny: Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R.

BSLib: ools for creating custom Bootstrap themes, making it easier to style Shiny apps & R Markdown documents directly from R without writing unruly CSS and HTML.

RVest: The rvest package helps you scrape (or harvest) data from web pages.

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