How can we help journalists utilize high technology to shift through the vast data existing out there and find causes and correlations?

With funding from Google (Google DNI), we are working with the Oikomedia journalistic platform on the “Alpha and Omega” project and are taking the first steps!

Alpha & Omega is an online application aimed at journalists who do not understand data. The tool will allow users to manage complex predictive models and algorithms without deep knowledge of statistics, machine learning, or programming, allowing them to spot stories and summaries and draw conclusions from data.