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How The Hindu Is Embedding AI Into Its Data Journalism

The Hindu’s data journalism team leveraged large language models to process 22 million voter‑record PDFs, automatically generate SQL queries, and build a searchable database that informed court and parliamentary debates. Using prompts in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, reporters assembled a full‑scale election‑results interactive without writing a single line of code, cutting development time to two weeks. A separate project combined AI guidance with Arduino sensors to capture street‑level heat stress, prompting a state heat‑management plan. Across these initiatives, AI acted as a sophisticated intern while editorial judgment remained human‑led.