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Instructor:
Sandeep Junnarkar
Leonard Tow Chair for Journalism Innovation
Director of Data Journalism Program, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Where: Zoom
Quickly evolving artificial intelligence technology is emerging as a potentially powerful journalism tool, including for harnessing data in stories. But AI needs to be wielded carefully and correctly to get accurate, trustable results in storytelling.
Join Sandeep Junnarkar, Data Journalism Director at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, for a three-part training series on using AI to find and analyze data to help you produce strong, high-quality stories for your audience. Junnarkar will be joined by Jere Hester, director of the J-School’s Local Accountability Reporting program, at these trainings.
How to find and access relevant data
Thursday, Oct. 9 @ 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET
Learn how to locate relevant data sets. We’ll explore – employing real-life examples – how to mine NYC Open Data and other largely untapped sources of information.
Prompt writing and AI-powered data analysis
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET
Learn to create effective AI prompts that, as Junnarkar puts it, allow you to “interrogate” the data, asking questions that yield information and insight key to your story.
How to verify data and avoid AI pitfalls
Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET
Discover how to validate your data projects and prevent AI “hallucinations” along with other risks tied to this fast-evolving technology.
Register for the data trainings
If you have any questions, contact ccm@journalism.cuny.edu.
Instructor
Sandeep Junnarkar began his journalism career helping launch The New York Times’ earliest digital editions, writing on how technology transforms medicine, psychiatry, and communications. At Bloomberg, he trains journalists in data journalism and advises on data projects. In 2019, he received a Knight Foundation AI ethics grant to help community journalists examine AI’s impact on immigrants and low-income groups. He co-created YOU ARE HERE, an AR storytelling app, and launched The Hate Index, tracking post-2016 hate incidents. He’s also developing PathChartr, a tool for personalized news delivery. Junnarkar holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Columbia Journalism School.