Category: Journalism
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How do you measure the popularity of videos on TikTok?
A guide on using Python to measure and compare the stats for TikTok videos on specific hashtags
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Risk v reward: what is the best strategy for football penalty kicks?
Australia’s win over France in the Women’s World Cup featured the longest penalty shootout in World Cup history – 20 spot kicks were taken, six more than the record of 14 set just a week earlier when Sweden beat the USA, and eight more than the men’s tournament record of 12. Even outside penalty shootouts,…
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How we used AI to cover the Australian election
During the last Australian election we ran an ambitious project that tracked campaign spending and political announcements by monitoring the Facebook pages of every major party politician and candidate. The project, dubbed the “pork-o-meter” (after the term pork-barreling), was hugely successful in being able to identify distinct patterns of spending based on vote margin, or incumbent party, with…
Nick Evershed 