Giorgio Comai

giocomai@mastodon.social

Researcher and data analyst at OBCT/CCI, previously at Dublin City UniversityResearch (since early 2000s): Russia and conflict in post-Soviet spacesData: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rstats</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ddj</a>, crunching data for EDJNet, the European Data Journalism Network.Current research project: text as data (and data in the text) in online sources related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other conflicts in post-Soviet spaces. <a href="https://tadadit.xyz/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://tadadit.xyz/</

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Post #1181237
As I&#39;m involved in an EU-funded initiative creating new training and upskilling modules for data journalism, we&#39;re busy doing some preliminary desk research on currently available programmes across Europe. We&#39;re looking into both higher education / university programmes, and other professional trainings. If you have suggestions about such initiatives in particular outside big institutions, please throw a link my way! Thanks! And if you&#39;re at #ijf26, see you there...
Post #1088232
Youth activists in #Russia were condemned to between 6 and 12 years of prison for peaceful protests. https://zona.media/article/2026/04/07/spring Terrible. Official list of their crimes: Organizing and participating in an extremist community; participating in the activities of a public association that infringes on the rights of citizens; inciting mass unrest; calling for activities against state security; disseminating &quot;fakes&quot; about the army; disseminating disrespectful in...
Post #516089
Winter Olympics 2026 medalists by place of birth: an interactive map I built (again) thanks to @wikipedia, @wikidata and #rstats). Check out the interactive version of the map: https://giocomai.github.io/olympics2026nuts/medalists_map.html #olympics #winterolympics