Tobi is a text robot that generates automated texts for 2222 Swiss municipalities on the evening of every Swiss national vote, which happen 3 to 4 times a year. The texts are generated by taking the the voting results provided by the national statistics office, analysed using pandas, combined with other data sets and fed into a text generation software. The whole project show cases how important collaboration in journalism ist today: Tobi required coding skills, writing skills, design skills and a lot of coordination. Mathias Born, a member of the data journalism unit at Tamedia, will discuss his coding work.
