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Pinpoint

Product

Upload and analyze large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI, and machine learning.

Fundamentals

Course

Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.

Introduction to Machine Learning

Course

With help from the London School of Economics and Political Science, VRT News and Texty our Journalism AI courses offer an insight on how journalists are using machine learning in their newsrooms.

Advocates for Equity in Australia

Case Study

Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media

Develop your digital reporting skills

Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.

Lesson

Give important context by building interactive maps.

Permissions: Source Google Data.

Lesson

Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.

Google Sheets: Visualizing data

Lesson

Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.

Google Street View: Verify images.

Lesson

Check the authenticity of an eyewitness photo or video.

Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism

Lesson

Key learnings and recommended resources to deepen your ML knowledge.

Google News Archive: Access the past.

Lesson

Discover historical digital publications and scanned newspapers.

How does a machine learn?

Lesson

A step-by-step overview of the ML training process.

Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs

Lesson

A quick and easy way to convert audio to text.

Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?

Lesson

Take a bird's eye view of machine learning within the AI landscape.

Introduction to Google Earth Engine

Lesson

Use a multi-petabyte library of satellite imagery and data to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface

Keeping Drivers Safe with AI-powered Journalism

Case Study

The Boston Globe’s investigation into automotive records yields a Pulitzer Prize

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Explore new storytelling formats

Google Data GIF Maker

Lesson

Visualise data comparisons in minutes.

Introduction to Google Earth Studio

Lesson

A fully functional animation studio for Google Earth imagery.

Google Sheets: Visualizing data

Lesson

Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.

Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet

Lesson

Build your own data sets using Google Sheets.

Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.

Lesson

Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.

Permissions: Source Google Data.

Lesson

Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.

Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change

Lesson

Observe how the earth has changed over the course of the last 35 years.

Bridging the Language Gap

Case Study

"One of the biggest challenges immigrants have is it's harder to get local news, especially in their language. So it's very important for us to be able to help this community." -Rocio Tirado, Chief Operating Officer, Jambalaya News

Permissions: Source Google Data.

Lesson

Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.

Google Sheets: Cleaning data

Lesson

Prepare your data for analysis and visualization.

Introduction to Google Earth Studio

Lesson

A fully functional animation studio for Google Earth imagery.

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Find new ways to fight misinformation

Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions

Lesson

How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.

Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.

Lesson

Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.

Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.

Lesson

Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.

Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions

Lesson

How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.

Protect your election coverage

Lesson

In this module, we will look at tools to protect and secure your election coverage

Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.

Lesson

Interpret descriptions, uploader information and place names.

Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs

Lesson

A quick and easy way to convert audio to text.

Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.

Lesson

Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.

Verification: Google Image Search

Lesson

Find visually similar images.

Google Fact Check Tools

Lesson

These tools allow you to search for stories and images that have already been debunked and lets you add ClaimReview markup to your own fact checks.

Visualising elections

Lesson

Bring elections to life with interactive visualisations

Google Data GIF Maker

Lesson

Visualise data comparisons in minutes.

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Featured stories

Mojo Story

Case Study

Content for Change: Providing young girls with a platform of like-minded peers, and mentors through the accessibility and outreach of a microsite with tech driven solution such as self publishing testimonials, dedicated hourly programming every week to discuss issues with a cross section of stakeholders (teenage girls, parents, schools, peer networks), frequents AMAs on YouTube livestreams etc.

Complex Networks increases purchases by 300% using News Consumer Insights

Case Study

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