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My second email newsletter<\/a> discusses robo-journalists, for some an object of job-based fear. However, based on trying out Automated Insight’s natural language generation system Wordsmith<\/a> and following Kent Brockman<\/a> I for one welcome our new robo-journalist overlords; although that’s because I reckon they will be human.<\/p>\n

A preview:<\/p>\n

The main things I learnt was that (at least for now) robo-journalism needs spreadsheets to turn into stories and considerable human work is required to set things up: choosing which pieces of data go where, what words or phrases to use under certain conditions and what random synonyms work to add variety.<\/p>\n

I think natural language generation has a lot of potential for the media, but will actually create new opportunities for (human) journalists with skills in wrangling data, editing and programming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The newsletter also includes links to articles I’ve written and ones I like and February’s map of month. I produced this from the latest ONS workplace\u00a0gross-value added figures for London’s boroughs, which cover 2014. The City of London and Camden have a GVA\/person of \u00a3263,789, more than 10 times the UK average. Meanwhile, Waltham Forest and Redbridge are more than a third below the average at just \u00a315,833.<\/p>\n

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