Edito Webinar
Data Journalism Vol 1 – GET THE DATA
Pull public records and APIs with AI agents, then find the patterns worth a story.
Behind almost every story there’s data on the web you can’t easily use — buried in pages, locked behind APIs, scattered across public records and downloads. Getting it into usable shape, then spotting what matters in it, used to mean knowing how to scrape and code. Not anymore.
Tom Vaillant is the founder of Buried Signals, an investigative and technology studio in partnership with Indicator — using AI to accelerate investigations, disclose methodologies, and build open tools for journalists and researchers. He works on data-driven and visual reporting with Swiss newsrooms — NZZ, 20 Minuten, Heidi.news.
In this webinar he shows how any reporter comfortable with a computer can point an AI agent at the web and let it do the work — scraping pages, calling APIs like OpenParlData, pulling the files you need — then read through what comes back and surface the patterns, outliers and anomalies worth a story. He’ll demo the agent skills he’s built for exactly this, and how to keep it honest: every figure traceable to its source.
- How to get an AI agent to pull data from the web for you — scraping, APIs, downloads, no code
- How to make it find patterns, outliers and anomalies across records you’d never read by hand
- How to keep it trustworthy: every figure sourced, every claim traceable
Speaker: Tom Vaillant, Buried Signals
Date: 1. September 2026, 17:30 Uhr
Kosten: 25 Franken. Für Edito-Abonnent:innen und Mitglieder von syndicom und impressum kostenlos.
