Announcing the soundeR package, that turns data into sounds. It’s made for people with basic tidyverse skills and a rudimentary understanding of music. You can make sounds with very little, and there’...

The south stadium facade is coming down. Grab the wrecking ball and help.

As PolitiFact retires the platform that powered its first 19 years, its original developer argues ideas matter more than tools

No newsroom anywhere has so many software developers laying around that any whim can be made real. But now … they kinda can. I find people using AI to write stories so tedious and boring. Hooray, just...

Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

"News organizations will realize that sharing their methods — like publishing detailed methodologies, developing projects in the open, and yes, giving away stuff for free — is essential to building tr...

In a word: Gobsmacked.

A blog about random fiddling with code and data.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.

NICAR25 Fellowships are available to help journalists attend IRE & NICAR's 2025 data journalism conference in Minneapolis.

"What's the point of the exercise here? Is it to inform people, or to show off what we know and how sophisticated we sound?"

"What's the point of the exercise here? Is it to inform people, or to show off what we know and how sophisticated we sound?"