I am a data journalist, data journalism teacher, speaker and public spending enthusiast.

Currently I’m working with Arena for Journalism in Europe on the Dataharvest conference as the data skills track coordinator and Follow The Money‘s Bureau Brussel as a data journalist and data coordinator in collaborative reporting.

As guest lecturer I teach Python at the Master of Investigative Journalism at the University of Gothenburg. I am also a proud member of the Open Spending Coalition, coalition for open, fair, and accountable public spending in the EU.

Wanna hire me or have any questions? Reach out to me! hello@homolova.sk 

Past projects

2021-2022: Lost in Europe

An European team of journalists reporting on migration, especially children missing in migration. The most story with most impact I worked on was on quantifying the amount of missing children in European asylum centres. The story was initially published in 9 outlets, including The Guardian and was republished in news outlets as far as Russia, Syria and South America.

2021: Cities for rent

An European collaborative reporting on corporate landlords. As data coordinator, I was the part of the coordinating team. This project won the European Press Prize.

See all the publications

2020: OCCRP

Investigative journalism organisation with focus on organised crime and corruption, cross-border collaborations and data investigations. I worked on two projects in 2020:

Kočners Library

In late 2019, reporters at the Ján Kuciak Investigative Center in Bratislava and the Czech investigative reporting platform Investigace.cz, were given access to the complete police case file on the brutal assassination of Martina Kušnírová and Ján Kuciak in 2018. Slovak police and Europol had collected a total of 53 TB of material. The full archive included digital copies of seized computers and phones, footage from security cameras and other evidence. As a part of the OCCRP’s data team, I helped to transfer and analyze the information. This project has won the Award of the Investigative Journalism Fund in Slovakia.

Europe’s COVID-19 Spending Spree Unmasked

An European collaboration collecting and analysing European COVID-19 public tender data. We have collected 21 billion euros worth of tender data from 37 countries.

• Publication
• Background on the data collection (OpenContracting.org)
• Github repository with all the data

2019: Pointer

Data newsroom of the Dutch broadcast. Combined the expertise of data specialists, coders and designers for each story. See example stories I worked on below (in Dutch):

• The water boards cost three billion euros annually, and you pay that bill
• Rare birds at risk due to nitrogen pollution
• Requested a government document? Sometimes you have to wait for years

2014-2018: Investico

An independent platform for structural investigative journalism. See example stories I worked on below (in Dutch):

• Whose coffeeshop is that?

2014-2018: OneWorld

A small Dutch magazine focused on sustainability and human rights. See example stories I made while working there (in Dutch)

• Did KLM really have a Ghanaian family offset our CO2 emissions?
• You can not go to the toilet here
• Sleeping on the rail

2014: Elvis (map me tender)

Data visualisation tool for public spending networks. We set out to visualise all the public spending in Europe as a graph visualisation. See how it worked in this YouTube video, or have a look at the version we made for defence tenders only (in collaboration with the Government Transparency Institute