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A selection of slides and videos from my public-speaking appearances.
2018
March Archiving data journalism at NICAR18 in Chicago (
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2017
Sept. What is a Data Desk? at CSUN's DataJam in Northridge (
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Aug. What is a Data Desk? at Big Data Day in Los Angeles (
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June What is a Data Desk? at Hollywood Data Science in Los Angeles (
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April Distinguished Journalism Awards at Union Club in Chicago (
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2016
Oct. The Framework Fix at Dodging the Memory Hole III in Los Angeles (
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Oct. How to tell a story with charts in five charts at IRE Watchdog Workshop in San Diego (
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2015
Nov. Show and Tell with the L.A. Times Data Desk at Hacks/Hackers in Los Angeles (
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Nov. The Open Data Opportunity at The Milken Institute in Santa Monica (
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Aug. Package data like software and the stories will flow like wine at Media Party in Buenos Aires (
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July California Civic Data Coalition at Knight News Challenge announcement in Austin (
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May Django + Memento at Dodging the Memory Hole II in Charlotte (
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2014
Dec. First Web Scraper at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (
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Dec. What is a Data Desk? at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (
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Nov. Introducing Storytracker at Dodging the Memory Hole in Columbia, Missouri (
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Feb. You Must Learn at NICAR in Baltimore (
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Feb. What is a Data Desk? at DataVis LA in Santa Monica (
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2013
Nov. El Cartografo en su Laberinto at Data Fest in Buenos Aires (
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April L.A.'s Political Calculus at Festival of Books in Los Angeles (
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March Django Retrained at NICAR in Louisville (
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March Is 911 a joke in your town? at NICAR in Louisville (
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Feb. How we use DocumentCloud at the Los Angeles Times at NICAR in Louisville (
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2012
May What is a Data Desk? at ONA LA in Los Angeles (
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April Human-assisted reporting at ISOJ in Austin (
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Feb. How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files at NICAR in St. Louis (
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Feb. Locating the story at NICAR in St. Louis (
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2011
Feb. PostGIS is your new bicycle at NICAR in Raleigh (
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2010
Dec. Pluggable Maps at Hacks/Hackers in Los Angelse (
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2008
Sept. Django in Journalism at Djangocon in Mountain View (
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