Workbench, Columbia University's Data Journalism Platform in Greek!
Worked on the launch of the greek version of Columbia Journalism School’s Workbench platform, the simplest possible way for journalists to work with data without requiring any coding.
This is an automated data journalism platform, that allows journalists to thoroughly investigate a topic, using advanced big data analysis methods.
All the tools required even for the most demanding data investigation are provided on the platform for free, along with fast and easy courses guiding journalists in each step of a data story production.
The Workbench founder, veteran data journalist, Jonathan Stray, talked about the project. “I am so excited that Workbench is now available in Greek. For quite some time now data journalism constitutes an international profession, but not everybody has the same chance to learn. This translation will allow Greek students to learn extremely fast the key points of data analysis and story reporting. We are looking forward to including translation for even more European languages in the near future”.
Our Computational Journalism Group at the National University of Athens
The Computational Journalism Group which also worked for the launch of the Workbench is a space for research and collaboration that operates within the New Technologies Lab at the National University of Athens.
It aims at promoting the connection between journalism and data science by focusing on in-depth understanding of contemporary computing methods that are globally used, assuming that the convergence of these two areas forms a great and quite promising field of knowledge.
I have been contributing as teaching assistant in the "Data Journalism and Visualization" course.
