The TFM must comply with the entire visualisation process: from the search and collection of data to database management, transformation, analysis, evaluation and visualisation.
Due to its longer duration, the face-to-face part will consist of two intensive sessions (hackathons) in order to present and evaluate the completed work.
An example of a TFM would be the following: ‘US-led airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq' report. The newspaper kept the database updated for a year. The software was written to detect new releases posted on the operations website of the United States Department of Defense, extracting the locations and dates of the bombings from the text of these reports. The software also alerted a group of reporters, who checked and approved the extracted data. Once the information was verified, the data was automatically passed to the dataset, which updated an interactive display of the extracted data.