Ada Homolova

One Newsletter to Rule Them All | Data Frosch Building an AI-powered RSS digest with robots - aggregate multiple news sources into one personalized weekly newsletter.

I built a tool! It's a little robot that makes personalized newsletters. Read about it here:
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And try it out!

RSS is not dead!

#llm #tools #newsletter #rss

🦜 #LLMs "will sand down specific, nuanced facts (which are statistically rare) and replace them with more generic, positive descriptions (which are statistically common)."

Great article from #wikipedia

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oh, frogs are mostly boys in children's books!
I did not know 🐸

Source: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

🪷The Pond #4: On the road again Ada is traveling Europe collecting interesting people, reading material and datasets.

What I love about investigative journalists is the fun and conversations with smart, curious, and open people

In a time when the world feels like it’s moving backwards, being part of a community that strives to make it better feels like a blessing

datafrosch.beehiiv.com/p/the-pond-4...

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Basic Income for the Arts will rollout permanently in Ireland from 2026, massive win Report from the three-year basic income pilot in Ireland found that the arts pays for itself.

go Ireland 👏👏👏

"[Data] shows that the pilot generated over €100 million in social and economic benefits, out of which €16.9 million was in social value from audience engagement, and €80 million was contributed through improved mental wellbeing."

www.artshub.com.au/news/article...

maybe we can crowdsource this :)

slovak: hau

The Albanian frogs are just saying 'poppy seeds' in Slovak. Very confusing!

How do frogs sound in different languages? Coa, kwak, ribbit .. my favorites are the hungarian frogs that just go brekeke ❤️🐸

Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️

#7: Eating capitalism How our food got hijacked by profits and is now having its way with our bodies. In this essay I explore how capitalism shaped the modern food system, engineered our cravings, and pushed ultra-processe...

#Food is such an important part our lives. We eat every day. What we eat becomes part of us.

And yet it’s being hijacked by corporations that latch onto our emotions and manipulate our biology.

This is my plea for returning food in our own hands.

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#realfood

A large white paper flipchart, standing in the entrance hall of a university building, with a couple of notes written in marker pen.

#ClimateArena people: want to collaborate on an investigation or workshop a project idea? Don't forget to add it to the whiteboard at the registration desk. #CA25

Data Journalism Mentorship | Data Frosch 1-on-1 mentorship for journalists & data professionals. Transform complex data into stories with personalized 8-week programs.

Vind je het moeilijk om het verhaal in de data te zien?
Wil je graag een vaardigheid of tool leren, zoals webscraping, Python of Excel?
Of heb je hulp nodig bij het vinden, analyseren of visualiseren van gegevens?
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Nederland wil van Amerikaanse cloud af, maar weet niet hoe Een groot deel van alle online diensten van Nederlandse overheden draait op een Amerikaanse cloud. ICT-experts waarschuwen al jaren voor de risico’s. Follow the Money vroeg 36 Nederlandse overheden of...

Al jaren waarschuwen ICT-experts, maar pas nu lijkt het besef bij de overheid door te dringen: Nederland is te afhankelijk van Amerikaanse techgiganten. Loskoppelen is daarentegen niet makkelijk. Gemeenten en instanties zeggen moeite te hebben met het vinden van ‘een reëel alternatief’.

YouTube video by Ada Homolova Make charts that bring HAPPINESS!

Ever come across a chart that just doesn’t work? Maybe it’s cluttered, hard to read, or just plain ugly. In this video I’m taking a not so great chart and turning it into a great one—step by step!

youtu.be/1QxR2x9vgFg

Make great data visualization Do you want to learn how to make charts that don't only show numbers, but tell a story instead? In this workshop you will learn how to transform tabular data into a crystal clear piece of visual infor...

🖍️ Draw data with me! ✨

Do you want to learn to make charts that tell a story, not just show data? Book this workshop with me!

🗓️ 10 April at 16:30

More info: homolova.sk/make-great-d...

Please help me reach more people and share this message with your colleagues and friends. Thank you! 👾

Upcoming sessions:
📊 Thursday 3 April 2025 / 16:30 CET: Google Sheets
⚡ Monday 14 April 2025 / 16:30 CET: R
🐍 May 8 Thu 2025 / 17:30 CET: Python

Get your tickets here : registration.dataharvest.eu/kickstart/

Kickstart your data journalism #1 : Excel YouTube video by Arena for Journalism in Europe

🥳 Thank you for joining us yesterday for our first Session in the series!

Missed it?

Download the data : bit.ly/DH_ready_170... and do your excel analysis together with us : www.youtube.com/live/woiTsTq...

Duck bellies and doom At the end of 2024, I surveyed friends and colleagues about important topics for next year. Here are 13 more responses.

At the end of 2024, I surveyed friends and colleagues about important topics for next year.

I must confess, this post isn't exactly cheerful, but if you hang in there, you'll discover the curious connection between duck bellies and solar power production.

🦆🦆🦆

homolova.sk/blog/duck-be...

Topics that matter most At the end of 2024, I surveyed friends and colleagues about important topics for next year. Here are the results.

At the end of 2024, I surveyed friends and colleagues about important topics for next year. Here are the results.

homolova.sk/blog/topics-...

💸 New commissioners harvest! Síkela, Kos, Micallef, Lahbib, and Kubilius are set to oversee some of the largest spending portfolios within the European Union.

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❓ What do you think is the most important topic to write about in 2025?

Fill in my survey! forms.gle/ymPgHVAYvhSS...

Your answer is anonymous.
I will share the results publicly between Christmas and New Years.

Looking forward to reading it!

Story of war from an unusual angle

www.economist.com/1843/2024/08...

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Belgian police raid homes of former EU justice chief Didier Reynders – two days after end of term Didier Reynders, until last Saturday the European Commissioner for Justice, is suspected of money laundering by the Belgian police. For about a decade, Reynders allegedly bought lottery tickets with d...

Didier Reynders was the EU’s Justice Commissioner until last Saturday – he is now under investigation for suspected money laundering. For years, he allegedly used dubious money to buy lottery tickets from the National Lottery, Follow the Money and Le Soir revealed.
www.ftm.eu/articles/eur...