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 ...

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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’ ...

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 ...

Journalists love telling other people’s stories–and we’re good at it. But many journalists struggle to tell their own stories, particularly when it comes to their own work. Some of the best news ...

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 ...

Testify, from The Marshall Project, is a great example of “generative journalism”: The team analyzed tens of thousands of court records, and was able to use the resulting data to tell many different ...

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We’ve all just come through the perennial season of prediction-making and intention-setting, the new year is here, and it’s time for us to commit to concrete goals that will move our teams and ...

About this series: Sincerely, Leaders of Color is written for everyone in the journalism industry who cares about creating a more supportive environment for journalists of color to do their best work.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is based on this presentation for NACIS 2022. My name is Aaron, I am a freelance journalist who specializes in interactive, map-based storytelling. My work typically ...