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General Information
Full Name | Simona Bisiani |
Date of Birth | 20th October 1994 |
Languages | English, Italian, Swedish |
Education
- 2022-2026
PhD AI-Assisted Journalism
Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey, Guildford, England
- My research project aims at deepening our understanding of geographic patterns of news coverage through NLP and text mining. The findings from this research will enable news producers to better understand which audiences they are serving, and which communities are underserved.
- Other projects
- Arists and AI.
- ChatGPT's effects on the labour market - Twitter users' views.
- 2019-2021
MSc Computational Social Science
Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
- Master Thesis. Using FastText´s supervised machine learning model to measure the quality of local news in journalistically fragile Swedish municipaliies.
- 2013-2017
BA(Hons) Journalism
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Bachelors Thesis - Measuring the impact of citizen journalism platforms on Aberdonians social capital
Experience
- 2024-
Data Architect
Public Interest News Foundation
- Managing the end-to-end design and maintenance of the local media database architecture
- Integrating AI (LLMs) solutions in the workflow
- Interacting with APIs
- Documenting and visualising the architecture
- Developing several automation scripts in R and Python
- Managing the end-to-end design and maintenance of the local media database architecture
- 2023-2023
Teaching Assistant
University of Surrey
- Delivering teaching content and assisting lectures in the management of the module Topics in People-Centred AI for the MSc students of Artificial Intelligence
- 2023-2023
Research Assistant
University of Canterbury
- Collecting local media articles and testing GIS tools to extract geolocations from the text
- 2021-2023
Data Journalist
DataJournalism.com, European Journalism Centre
- Blogger
- The State of Data Journalism Survey (editions 2021, 2022)
- Survey creator
- Data analyst
- Visualisations and website producer
- Results reporting
- 2022
Other
- 2019-now
Computational Social Journalism co-founder
- Computational social journalism (CSJ) describes a personal vision of future journalism, based on the intersection of journalism and computational social science. A vision we embodied in a blog.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Cycling (road and mtb), Running, Music.