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 ...

If you build news apps, crunch data, design interactive features, or otherwise do things with code in a news organization, we want to help document, support, and amplify your work. The easiest way to ...

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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 ...

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Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis.

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 ...

Data from the Migration Patterns website shows that young adults who grow up in St. Louis tend to remain there. The cliché about St. Louis is that upon first meeting you—no matter how old you ...

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.

For journalists wanting to make their work accessible to people with disabilities, alt text is a great place to start. This short guide can help you think about how to add helpful alt text to images, ...

Description: An illustration featuring two Black women having a conversation in sign language, a Black woman walking with her service dog, and a Black man in a wheelchair celebrating. (Illustration by ...