AI presentation for The Economist, January 2025

Me

• Jonathan Soma
• Knight Chair in Data Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
• js4571@columbia.edu
• @dangerscarf
• jonathansoma.com

The presentation

The presentation

Structured data (spreadsheets)

• Claude for Sheets extension
• Anthropic API keys
• Claude for Sheets (mine)
• Anthropic's guide
• WaPo invesigation
• THE CITY's neighborhoods project

Structured data (code)

• Pydantic
• Outlines
• OpenAI Structured Outputs
• Instructor

Video and images

• Hugging Face
• Roboflow
• Supervision
• @merve
• Big Atlas of LA Pools
• GIJN: Venezuelan mining
• Texty's Leprosy of the Land

Transcription

• WhisperX
• Misinformation on TikTok: How 'Documented' Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages