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A weblog by Alex Jarvis, full of fun and interesting stuff. I'm a Designer at BERG, and an also a mentor and Associate Lecturer on the FdA Design course at the LCC in London.
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Algorithms reporting the news
Algorithms producing journalism? What might sound like a futuristic setting is already becoming reality. Journalistic texts are characterised by a certain structure that algorithms can be programmed to imitate. The first tests still read or hear like early prototypes, but they’re already around in sports journalism, with finance or local news to come next. In the US, two different projects have started work on algorithm produced journalism. Last week the sports statistics website StatSheet announced a plan to produce completely automated sports content as of this summer. The algorithm produced content will take the form of blogs, with a target that at least 90% of the readers should think the content was created by a human. And in a partnership with the Medill school of journalism, the Intelligent Information Laboratory of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University has developed an algorithm called StatsMonkey that publishes game stories. Automated journalism can basically be understood as search algorithms programmed to look out for certain key findings. then to put them into a certain structure. For a report on a football game for example, the StatsMonkey calculates the narrative based on the numerical data. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/30/digital-media-algorithms-reporting-journalism
