Talks

A selection of slides and videos from my public-speaking appearances.

2021

March • First Python Notebook at NICAR21 After Party in Zoom (Video »)

Feb. • COVID-19 and a corresponding shift in collaborative data journalism at C+J 2021 in OhYay

2020

Oct. • DATA AND GRAPHICS: An introduction at Humanitarian Mapathon in UCLA (Video » Slides »)

March • First Python Notebook at Flash MOOC in Zoom (Slides »)

2019

May • Data journalism on deadline at Science Communication Program in UC Santa Cruz (Slides »)

April • Nerds in the Newsroom at The National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim (Slides »)

April • Statistics, Shoeleather and Storytelling at Festival of Books in Los Angeles (Slides »)

March • Census 2020: Don't panic! Do data! at USC in Los Angeles (Video » Slides »)

2018

Oct. • What is a Data Desk? at PyDataLA in USC (Video » Slides »)

Sept. • What is a Data Desk? at BitCurator Users Forum in Los Angeles (Video » Slides »)

July • Data, data, gimme the news at USC in Los Angeles (Slides »)

March • Archiving data journalism at NICAR18 in Chicago (Slides »)

2017

Sept. • What is a Data Desk? at CSUN's DataJam in Northridge (Slides »)

Aug. • What is a Data Desk? at Big Data Day in Los Angeles (Video » Slides »)

June • What is a Data Desk? at Hollywood Data Science in Los Angeles (Slides »)

April • Distinguished Journalism Awards at Union Club in Chicago (Video »)

2016

Oct. • The Framework Fix at Dodging the Memory Hole III in Los Angeles (Video »)

Oct. • How to tell a story with charts in five charts at IRE Watchdog Workshop in San Diego (Slides »)

2015

Nov. • Show and Tell with the L.A. Times Data Desk at Hacks/Hackers in Los Angeles (Slides »)

Nov. • The Open Data Opportunity at The Milken Institute in Santa Monica (Video »)

Aug. • Package data like software and the stories will flow like wine at Media Party in Buenos Aires (Video » Slides »)

July • California Civic Data Coalition at Knight News Challenge announcement in Austin (Video » Slides »)

May • Django + Memento at Dodging the Memory Hole II in Charlotte (Slides »)

2014

Dec. • What is a Data Desk? at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (Video » Slides »)

Dec. • First Web Scraper at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (Video » Slides »)

Nov. • Introducing Storytracker at Dodging the Memory Hole in Columbia, Missouri (Video » Slides »)

Feb. • You Must Learn at NICAR in Baltimore (Video » Slides »)

Feb. • What is a Data Desk? at DataVis LA in Santa Monica (Video »)

2013

Nov. • El Cartografo en su Laberinto at Data Fest in Buenos Aires (Video » Slides »)

April • L.A.'s Political Calculus at Festival of Books in Los Angeles (Slides »)

March • Is 911 a joke in your town? at NICAR in Louisville (Slides »)

March • Django Retrained at NICAR in Louisville (Video » Slides »)

Feb. • How we use DocumentCloud at the Los Angeles Times at NICAR in Louisville (Slides »)

2012

May • What is a Data Desk? at ONA LA in Los Angeles (Video »)

April • Human-assisted reporting at ISOJ in Austin (Video » Slides »)

Feb. • How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files at NICAR in St. Louis (Slides »)