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Benno Hansen

Automated News Comes To Sports Coverage Via StatSheet - 0 views

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media journalism data sports

shared by Benno Hansen on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • We may no longer need the humans, at least for data-driven stories.
  • Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet’s content algorithms. “The posts are completely auto-generated,” says founder Robbie Allen. “The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts.”
  • It has about 20 different types of articles that it generates, from season previews to game recaps. StatSheet might analyze 10,000 data points and 4,000 possible phrases to generate a single story.
Benno Hansen

Heat, Drought Linked to Violence Worldwide - weather.com - 1 views

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violence weather climate change war statistics

shared by Benno Hansen on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.
  • A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.
  • studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures
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  • In agricultural areas, where climate affects the economy, violence may increase because of weather-caused poor economic conditions.
Benno Hansen

The Canadian Press: Researchers suggest tall soccer players are more likely to be calle... - 0 views

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fouls statistics sports

shared by Benno Hansen on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • "We found that on average the player who committed the foul is taller than the one who was the victim,"
  • Humans throughout evolution needed to be more afraid of bigger animals because bigger animals usually have more potential to harm us,"
Benno Hansen

Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Jo... - 0 views

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media journalism data

shared by Benno Hansen on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Advertising and journalism do not complement each other the way they used to.
  • successful media companies of the future have to build an infrastructure that turns them into reliable data hubs, able to analyze even very large and complex datasets internally and to build stories on their insights
  • machine can assemble large portions of articles through structured data
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  • computers are getting ever closer to mastering the subtleties of human communication
  • Any event can be described by fundamental data: latitude, longitude, time and date and importance.
  • the fundamental role of journalism will remain the same: searching for truth, and demanding accountability of those in power
  • the majority of online journalists are stuck working with outdated or unimaginative tools
  • Trust, not information, is the scarce resource in today’s world. Trust is something that is hard to earn and easy to lose. And it is a core element of journalism
  • The trust market is still up for grabs. Most media players are still competing in the “attention market.”
  • fact collection will be organized rather than done by journalists
  • In the future, many journalists will resemble project managers, aggregating resources around platforms like Ushahidi rather than dashing adventurers
  • In an era where more and more users have a camera phone and a way to put that content online, the journalist becomes the one who’s best able to curate and validate material from the data deluge, not just adding to it. Crowdsourcing should allow media organizations to devote more resources to vetting information produced by others, and thereby gaining trust.
  • Many investigations will be led behind a computer as journalists organize a community of users and a team of developers to get stories out.
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