Articles

This is a small selection of published articles I've either written, edited, or contributed to in some way.

• Dissecting a Machine Learning Powered Investigation

  Uncovering local property tax evasion using machine learning and statistical modeling. An investigative recipe.

• Rethinking Web Scraping with AutoScrape

  Web scraping is tedious. In this article, I explore patterns for building scrapers and introduce a new tool, AutoScrape.

• Robust Web Scraping in the Public Interest with AutoScrape (Research Paper)

  Presented to Computation + Journalism 2019

• Extracting References from Political Auto-Transcripts (Research Paper)

  Presented to Data Science + Journalism Workshop at KDD 2017

• Silk Road: A Vicious Blow to the War on Drugs

  High-tech software and a new digital currency bring the black market (and high quality heroin) to your home