Apply for a fellowship to NICAR or to be a mentor or mentee, plus meetups are getting moving in the new year.

Very subjectively, it was an astonishing year in data and interactive journalism. Every week, we found ourselves both horrified by the subject matter and thrilled to see our community producing so much good work, and doing so with open kindness and generosity.

This was my first time using public data, and I remember thinking it was going to be so easy. The data was right there, in a good format, in public, just waiting to be analyzed. And at the data bootcamp, I had picked up some data-cleaning skills, so I figured fixing any errors would be no sweat.

Our regular biweekly roundup of noteworthy projects.

The many reasons that accessibility can’t be overlooked.

Choosing the right tools for literate data analysis can make it much easier on your team. Here’s a few suggestions, from the team at DataMade.

Slow time of year for events, but busy for pitching sessions and fellowship applications.

With SRCCON:WORK just getting underway, here’s our Q&A with our opening speaker, Sydette Harry of the Coral Project and the Mozilla Foundation. Sydette spoke this morning about journalism’s inclination to skip the critical questions about diversity and representation.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.

It’s SRCCON:WORK this week, plus today’s the JSK fellowship deadline.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Mandy Brown.

Everything you need to know about supply chain attacks, a kind of security breach that targets trusted distribution channels for delivering software and hardware.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been producing global investigations for more than 20 years, but it was only three and a half years ago that ICIJ created an in-house data team. Mar Cabra, who was head of the Data & Research Unit from its creation until September this year, recalls how it all started, the iterations on the software based on the reporting needs and the lessons learned along the way.

A few weeks ago, Slate published a year-in-push-alerts feature that captured much of the sense of escalating anxiety and unreality produced by the last year in breaking news.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A with David Yee.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Nicole Zhu.

Applications due Thursday for women’s leadership programs, plus a bunch of meetups this week.

Last week, ProPublica’s Olga Pierce wrote to the NICAR-L list asking for help putting together a list of “happy data stories” or stories related to the arts, at the request of some of her students.

SRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. First up is ProPublica’s Sisi Wei, who will speak about blind hiring processes