Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...
Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock. You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent ...
Data about LGBTQ+ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and questions seeking to understand those communities. But between spotty ...
In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ ...
Writing and sharing security guidance ain’t easy. Without a light touch you can scare or overwhelm your audience. The advice often ages quickly, so you need a plan to help ensure it continues to make ...
Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...
A big part of product management, and career growth too, is figuring out how all the pieces fit together. (Photo by Vlad Hilitanu on Unsplash) This year has been my first as a product manager in a ...
At PublicSource, we’re all about delving into the heart of stories, exposing truths and championing accountability. We cover everything from local government to health, the environment and education, ...
Participants in the Data Lens hackathon at Ulaanbaatar’s Innovation Center came together last month to explore data about air pollution, traffic, and public transportation. (Photo by Delgerzaya ...
A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...
Here are the results of the 2022 News Nerd Survey, which offer a snapshot of our community and hopes to understand its needs. We are thankful for the responses. This survey follows the previous ones ...
The Local’s months-long investigation of Toronto’s Vision Zero road-safety program grew out of a plan to analyze speeding in school zones across the city. What we found was significant inequity in the ...
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