"Local Models to search through (Epstein) files" will cover tool building and data analysis methods using local models, with Epstein files as the case study, but applicable to any big data set a newsroom might have. The purpose is leave the workshop with the tools to go through a simple set up of local models and an llm-based analysis that can power an internal tool interface that can be vibe-coded. All these tools, techniques and frameworks can later be applied to the prototyping process that teams will need to go through for the hackathon part of the event.
