We created a software enabling journalists to define a set of criteria they would like to see applied regularly to a constantly-updated dataset, sending them an alert when these criteria are met, thus signaling them that there may be a story to write. The main challenges were to keep the product scalable and powerful, while making sure that it could be used by journalists who would not possess all the technical knowledge to exploit it fully. In order to do so, we had to choose Javascript as our main language, as well as designing the code in such a way that it would allow re-usability and further improvements. This project is a proof of concept being tested in a real-life environment, and will be developed towards more and more accessibility.
翻译:我们开发了一款软件,使记者能够定义一组标准,定期对持续更新的数据集应用这些标准,并在符合条件时发送警报,从而提示可能具有新闻价值的报道线索。主要挑战在于保持产品的可扩展性和强大功能,同时确保缺乏全面技术知识的记者也能高效使用。为此,我们选择Javascript作为主要编程语言,并采用可复用且便于后续改进的代码架构。该项目作为概念验证,已在真实环境中进行测试,并将持续提升其易用性。