Data journalism: ‘wreaking havoc with data is a much more creative sport’

Data journalist Lam Thuy Vo startled and depressed her audience at AIDC 2020 by admitting that she is a coder. Right, we all thought, what am I doing here?

But then she told her story and it all made sense. She started as a videographer, fascinated by people and cultures, and realised that we all leave a trail of data, which is like a record of an interview done continuously with a subject.