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Learning Introducing broca
Made at our recent code convening, broca creates a system for easier experimentation and implementation of natural language processing.
Learning On Repeat
GIFs and other looped images are mightier than journalists might imagine. Lena Groeger explains the legend, the myth, the GIF.
Learning Why Journalism Students Don’t Learn CS
Opportunities overfloweth in journalism code—so why aren’t more journalism students signing up for computer science classes? Lindsey Cook reports back on a year of research.
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Learning Audio in the Browser: Horrors and Joys
- By Tyler Fisher
- NPR
On the web, audio has never received the wide browser support that images and videos have enjoyed. What gives? What’s next?
Learning Automating Transparency
- By Ed Summers
Sometimes you write a piece of software and it gets used for purposes you didn’t quite imagine at the time. Sometimes you write a piece of software and it unexpectedly rearranges your life.
Learning The Evolution of NPR’s Picture Stories
- By Wes Lindamood
- NPR
How NPR’s picture stories have changed—and the design principles and iterative work behind all the changes.
Learning Consider the Boolean
- By Jacob Harris
The challenge of using binary data structures in a complicated world.
Learning Understanding Households and Relationships in Census Data
The Census Bureau’s population counts make trends in household makeup easy to track. All you need are two things: an understanding of how the Census asks Americans about households and relationships, and where to find the right tables amid the haystack of tabulations. That’s what this post aims to help you with.
Learning Connecting with the Dots
Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots
Learning Marriage Data: It’s Complicated
D’Vera Cohn on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Marriage Data But Were Afraid to Ask
Learning Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Elections Scraping
Jeremy Merrill and Ken Schwencke explore the fine art of anticipating and catching errors while wrangling the eccentricities of US elections data.
Learning The Census of Governments Has Your Number
Michael Maciag‘s walk-through of this under-utilized goldmine.
Learning Finding Stories in Census Data
Emily Alpert Reyes on how to find promising needles in Census haystacks.
Learning A Big Article About Wee Things
- By Lena Groeger
Lena Groeger on the magical powers of every little thing.
Learning Gender, Twitter, and the Value of Taking Things Apart
Jake Harris reverse-engineers Twee-Q to evaluate its use of data (and see if his ratio is as disappointing as Twee-Q says it is)
Learning Security for Journalists, Part Two: Threat Modeling
Jonathan Stray on how to protect yourself, your sources, and your scoop on sensitive stories
Learning Security for Journalists, Part One: The Basics
Jonathan Stray on what every single person in your news org should be doing to secure the newsroom.
Learning True Facts, Maybe
Matt Waite thinks epistemology (and a little fake software) could save journalism—here’s why.
Learning Putting the User in User Experience
Zoe Fraade-Blanar on why and how good interaction design thinks about users.
