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natural language processing (362) computational social science (25) media ecology (7) news deserts (2)
Simona Bisiani News deserts . NLP. Data journalism. R and Python. Local news . Computational social science.
I am a computational journalism Doctoral Researcher at the newly founded Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI . I became fascinated in data journalism during my BA in Scotland, while trying to map social inequalities using census data. The desire to harness the power of data and better grasp the responsibilities coming with it got me to pursue a MSc in Computational Social Science, where I delved in the theory and practice of social network analysis, agent-based modelling, dimensionality reduction methods
Before my PhD I worked as a data journalist at Sheldon.studio and at DataJournalism.com . At DataJournalism.com, I have created, analysed, visualised, and digitally presented the State of Data Journalism 2021 and 2022 surveys. At Sheldon.studio, I have worked on Disabled Data , a project that shed light on the difficulties surrounding availability of data on people with disabilities in Italy, and an upcoming project on sanctions for data.europa.eu .