Alert Data Journalism is a tool to connect journalists to the open data sources in cities they are covering. By automating the collecting and preliminary analysis of data for newsworthiness the tool cuts down on the manual work a journalist must do in order to create stories and insights from data...
Alert Data Journalism is a prototype project in Ireland and the UK. Founded by Conor Molumby in 2017 the project won backing from the Google Digital News Innovation fund (DNI) in December 2017...
Alert Data Journalism allows journalists to set their own parameter values for the thresholds at which the tool notifies them of data trends. In this way the human journalist's news judgment and the tool's data processing work together in a human-machine partnership that provides smart insights when newsworthy events occur.