Hi Laura, 

João Alexandre Peschanski, who is a professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil has been doing that for some time now. 
He's been experimenting with Wikidata, as Daniel suggested. He's CCed to this email. 

Best,
Shani. 

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 1:41 AM Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Laura,

have you looked into Wikidata?

There are quite a few examples like
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-occupations-of-people-in-the-panama-papers-a7025736.html
or
https://www.mysociety.org/2018/10/16/wikidata_and_congress/
or
https://janakiev.com/blog/wikidata-mayors/
that go into your direction.

Daniel

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:35 PM Jenemann, Laura <ljeneman@bu.edu> wrote:
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> I am working with closely with our Data Journalism course this terms at Boston University.  I will be sharing some of my Wikipedia related lessons with them.
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> Using data to tell stories is a theme of this class.  Have you used or know of examples of how people have used Wikipedia or data related to Wikimedia for data journalism?
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> Thank you in advance for any information you can share.
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> Sincerely,
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