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How Airflow and AI Power Investigative Journalism at the Financial Times with Zdravko Hvarlingov
The Financial Times leverages Airflow and AI to uncover powerful stories hidden within vast, unstructured data.
In this episode, Zdravko Hvarlingov, Senior Software Engineer at the Financial Times, discusses building multi-tenant Airflow systems and AI-driven pipelines that surface stories that might otherwise be missed. Zdravko walks through entity extraction and fuzzy matching, linking the UK Register of Members’ Financial Interests with Companies House, and how this work cuts weeks of manual analysis to minutes.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction.
02:12 What computational journalism means…
The skinny
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