JournalismAI Discovery
I wrote a newsletter-based introductory course for the London School of Economics about AI and how it's used within journalism.
Selected Work
Welcome to my portfolio.
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nextLI's Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge (2021)
As part of Newsday's GNI Innovation Challenge, I extended Datasette and built plugins to improve its usability within the newsroom.
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Investigating Vancouver Police Department's deadly use of force
In collaboration with Troy Brynelson of Oregon Public Broadcasting, I investigated Vancouver Police Department's relatively high number of deadly shootings.
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ProPublica's Electionland (2020)
I made it easier for reporters to monitor for voting issues during the 2020 general election.
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The Membership Guide
I got an opportunity to make WordPress shine.
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Nonprofit Explorer
I made ProPublica's flagship news application easier to read, search and maintain
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Collaborate
With ProPublica I developed Collaborate - An open source tool to ease the process of gathering tips from the public and sharing them between newsrooms.
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Dissecting a Machine Learning Powered Investigation
Uncovering local property tax evasion using machine learning and statistical modeling. An investigative recipe.
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AutoScrape: Robust Web Scraping in the Public Interest
Presented to Computation + Journalism 2019 and detailed in Artificial Informer
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Extracting References from Political Auto-Transcripts (Research Paper)
Presented to Data Science + Journalism Workshop at KDD 2017