Talks

A selection of recordings, slides and other materials from my public-speaking appearances.

2025
June • “Harnessing AI: How journalists can reap the benefits – and avoid the pitfalls – of emerging AI tools” at SABEW online panel in Zoom (Materials »)
May • “Journalism in the visual age” at Canva meetup in New York City
March • “Good Trouble: Let's use AI to do journalism” at Columbia Scholastic Press Association in New York City (Video » Materials »)
March • “First LLM Classifier” at NICAR in Minneapolis (Materials »)
March • “First Athena Query” at NICAR in Minneapolis (Materials »)
March • “Go big with GitHub Actions” at NICAR in Minneapolis (Materials »)
Feb. • “FOIA Fellowship” at DePaul University Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence in Zoom
2024
May • “First Python Notebook: Data Analysis on Deadline” at Knight Center at UT-Austin in an online class (Video »)
April • “Bare Facts First: How Reuters uses Datawrapper to create, automate and disseminate hundreds of charts each week” at Data Visualization Society in New York City (Materials »)
March • “What is a Data Journalist?” at CSPA Spring Convention in New York City (Materials »)
March • “Bare Facts First: How Reuters uses Datawrapper to create, automate and disseminate hundreds of charts each week” at Datawrapper in Streamyard (Video » Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Baltimore (Video »)
March • “First Automated Chart” at NICAR in Baltimore (Materials »)
March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Baltimore (Materials »)
2023
Oct. • “Have a little fun with FOIA” at National FOIA Summit 23 in Zoom
March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in New Orleans (Materials »)
March • “Introducing moneyinpolitics.wtf” at NICAR in Nashville (Materials »)
March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Nashville (Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Nashville (Materials »)
2022
Dec. • “First Pull Request” at the e.e. cummings free poetry archive in Zoom (Video » Materials »)
Oct. • “How do we make FOI fun?” at National FOIA Summit 22 in Zoom
Sept. • “Fast First Python Notebook” at ONA22 in Zoom (Video » Materials »)
Aug. • “What is Big Local News?” at 17º Congresso Internacional de Journalismo da Abraji in São Paulo (Materials »)
July • “First Python Notebook” at JSK Connect Master Class in Zoom
April • “Data Journalism Workshop” at 14East Magazine in Zoom (Video » Materials »)
April • “A beginner’s guide to FBI crime statistics” at The California Newsroom in Zoom (Materials »)
April • “Scaling up scrapers with Prefect and Google Cloud” at Prefect Live in Twitch (Video » Materials »)
March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Atlanta (Materials »)
March • “First GitHub Scraper” at NICAR in Atlanta (Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Atlanta (Materials »)
Feb. • “The state of local data journalism” at The Data Journalism Podcast in Zoom (Video »)
2021
Nov. • “How the Low Angeles Times overhauled its graphics workflow” at OpenNews Community Call in SoundCloud (Video »)
Sept. • “Beyond JMS: The power of Python” at San Diego State University in Zoom (Video » Materials »)
July • “Hosting data on the Internet Archive with Django” at OpenNews Community Call in SoundCloud (Video »)
May • “Hello datawrapper” at Arizona State University in Zoom (Video » Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR21 After Party in Zoom (Video »)
March • “Learning to code: What's holding you back?” at NICAR in Zoom
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 » Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at Flash MOOC in Zoom (Materials »)
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in New Orleans (Materials »)
March • “First Observable notebook” at NICAR in New Orleans
2019
May • “Data journalism on deadline” at Science Communication Program in UC Santa Cruz (Materials »)
April • “Nerds in the Newsroom” at The National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim (Materials »)
April • “Statistics, Shoeleather and Storytelling” at Festival of Books in Los Angeles (Materials »)
March • “Census 2020: Don't panic! Do data!” at USC in Los Angeles (Video » Materials »)
March • “First Graphics App” at NICAR in Newport Beach
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Newport Beach
March • “Archiving digital journalism” at NICAR in Newport Beach
March • “First Observable Notebook” at NICAR in Newport Beach
2018
Oct. • “What is a Data Desk?” at PyDataLA in USC (Video » Materials »)
Sept. • “What is a Data Desk?” at BitCurator Users Forum in Los Angeles (Video » Materials »)
July • “Data, data, gimme the news” at USC in Los Angeles (Materials »)
March • “Archiving data journalism” at NICAR18 in Chicago (Materials »)
March • “First Graphics App” at NICAR in Chicago
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Chicago
2017
Sept. • “What is a Data Desk?” at CSUN's DataJam in Northridge (Materials »)
Aug. • “What is a Data Desk?” at Big Data Day in Los Angeles (Video » Materials »)
June • “What is a Data Desk?” at Hollywood Data Science in Los Angeles (Materials »)
April • “Distinguished Journalism Awards” at Union Club in Chicago (Video »)
March • “Just enough Django: Distributed data entry in the newsroom” at NICAR in Jacksonville
March • “First News App” at NICAR in Jacksonville
March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Jacksonville
2016
Oct. • “The Framework Fix” at Dodging the Memory Hole III in Los Angeles (Video »)
Oct. • “First Python Notebook” at IRE Watchdog Workshop in San Diego
Oct. • “How to tell a story with charts in five charts” at IRE Watchdog Workshop in San Diego (Materials »)
March • “First News App” at NICAR in Denver
March • “Data journalists and data teams: Where we are and where we want to go” at NICAR in Denver
2015
Nov. • “Show and Tell with the L.A. Times Data Desk” at Hacks/Hackers in Los Angeles (Materials »)
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 » Materials »)
July • “California Civic Data Coalition” at Knight News Challenge announcement in Austin (Video » Materials »)
May • “Django + Memento” at Dodging the Memory Hole II in Charlotte (Materials »)
March • “Just enough Django: Distributed data entry in the newsroom” at NICAR in Atlanta
March • “First News App” at NICAR in Atlanta
2014
Dec. • “First Web Scraper” at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (Video » Materials »)
Dec. • “What is a Data Desk?” at CCCB Lab in Barcelona (Video » Materials »)
Nov. • “Introducing Storytracker” at Dodging the Memory Hole in Columbia, Missouri (Video » Materials »)
March • “First News App” at NICAR in Baltimore
Feb. • “You Must Learn” at NICAR in Baltimore (Video » Materials »)
Feb. • “Proper workflows for data projects” at NICAR in Baltimore
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 » Materials »)
April • “L.A.'s Political Calculus” at Festival of Books in Los Angeles (Materials »)
March • “Django Retrained” at NICAR in Louisville (Video » Materials »)
March • “Is 911 a joke in your town?” at NICAR in Louisville (Materials »)
Feb. • “How we use DocumentCloud at the Los Angeles Times” at NICAR in Louisville (Materials »)
2012
May • “What is a Data Desk?” at ONA LA in Los Angeles (Video »)
April • “Human-assisted reporting” at ISOJ in Austin (Video » Materials »)
Feb. • “How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files” at NICAR in St. Louis (Materials »)
Feb. • “Locating the story” at NICAR in St. Louis (Materials »)
2011
Feb. • “PostGIS is your new bicycle” at NICAR in Raleigh (Materials »)
2010
Dec. • “Pluggable Maps” at Hacks/Hackers in Los Angeles (Materials »)
2008
Sept. • “Django in Journalism” at Djangocon in Mountain View (Video »)