I’m running a one-day data journalism training course at the National Union of Journalists’ head office in London, organised with the NUJ’s London Freelance branch, on Friday 20 October. The day runs from 11am to 6pm. The price, which includes lunch, is £31 for NUJ members and £65 for non-members. Continue reading “Data journalism training at the NUJ on 20 October”
Limited intelligence on artificial intelligence
The start of September traditionally marks the end of the media’s silly season, when daft stories proliferate. Hopefully this means less coverage of how artificial intelligence is going to pinch our jobs and bring about the apocalypse, presumably in that order. Continue reading “Limited intelligence on artificial intelligence”
The many problems with automated decision making
I have written about automated decision making or machine learning for Computer Weekly, in particularly the numerous problems with using it. The biggest set of issues is summed up nicely by Joanna Bryson of Bath and Princeton universities: “The reason machine learning is working so well is it is leveraging human culture. It’s getting the bad with the good.”
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You can charge £10 a month online, unless you’re the FT
Researching a training course I’m delivering tomorrow at City Lit,* I’ve found that publishers with a paywall tend to charge about £10 a month/£120 annually for online access – with the exception of the Financial Times. It charges £276 a year for its basic digital service (often discounted to £208 as an introductory offer), but as well as a source of news and comment, it also works as a lightweight business intelligence tool covering major companies and industries.
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Bristol date for free training on using data to make more money from freelancing: 9 August
My Using data to make more money from freelancing course, which has now run twice at Equity’s headquarters in London, has a new date and location: Wednesday 9 August at Unite’s office in Bristol.
As usual with Federation of Entertainment Union courses, you can attend for free if you are a freelance member of one of the following unions: Equity, the Musicians’ Union, the National Union of Journalists and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
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