I've spent a decade turning data into stories published on four continents. In my workshops I teach your team to do the same — with maps, with AI, and with the grant money to fund it all.
Three hands-on modules, refined over a decade of trainings, fellowships and university courses. Take one as a half-day masterclass, or combine them into a multi-day bootcamp. Click each module to see what's inside.
How to choose the right visual form for your data — and how to spot (and avoid) the charts and maps that lie. Real examples from award-winning publications.
Geocoding, choropleths and point maps. We take a raw dataset and turn it into a publication-ready map during the session.
Where to find data, how to clean it fast, and the questions to ask before you visualise anything. Every participant leaves with a reusable template and a tool kit for their team.
Start the investigation with AI: mine documents, archives and datasets, summarise reports and FOIA hauls, and map sources and leads — with every claim traced back to its origin.
Turn messy inputs into analysable data: scanned PDFs, inconsistent spreadsheets and unstructured text transformed into tidy tables with LLMs — reproducibly, with every step logged and verifiable.
From clean data to charts, maps and interactives with AI coding assistants — the exact workflow I used to rebuild two data projects in days instead of weeks, as told to the Reuters Institute at Oxford.
Shape the final piece with AI as a sparring partner for angles, structure and headlines — plus the verification guardrails and ethics checklist that keep hallucinations out of print.
Who actually funds journalism — Pulitzer Center, European Journalism Centre, IJ4EU, foundations and innovation funds — what each of them wants, and how to match your idea to the right call.
Framing, impact, budget and timeline, dissected line by line from real applications that won — including projects funded by the Pulitzer Center and the European Commission.
You draft a one-page pitch for your own story during the session and get live feedback, plus a checklist for budgets, partners and reporting requirements.
Workshops and masterclasses delivered on stage and in classrooms, from Europe to Latin America to South-East Asia.
Internazionale
Ferrara · Italy
Festival Gabo
Bogotá · Colombia
Splice Media
Chiang Mai · Thailand
Guest lectures, seminars and full courses in data journalism, data visualisation and computational storytelling.
Cambridge University
Cambridge · UK
SISSA
Trieste · Italy
San Raffaele
Milan · Italy
Aarhus University
Aarhus · Denmark
Rey Juan Carlos
Madrid · Spain
Bicocca University
Milan · Italy
I run workshops and trainings at companies, NGOs, festivals and universities — in English or Italian, on site or remote. Tell me about your event and let's build the right session together.