Talks

Recordings, slides and other materials from my public-speaking appearances

2026

• June • “Understanding Europe’s heatwave” at Reuters On Assignment in YouTube ( Video » )
• May • “Showing Your Work with Ben Welsh” at The Data Journalism Podcast in Spotify ( Audio » )
• May • “Introducing the Reuters Climate Monitor” at Responsible Business USA 2026 in Boston ( Materials » )
• April • “Introducing the New IRE Resource Center” at Investigative Reporters and Editors in Zoom ( Video » · Materials » )
• March • “Today’s News For Tomorrow” at Poynter in Zoom ( Materials » )
• March • “First PMTiles Map” at NICAR in Indianapolis
• March • “Introducing the new IRE Resource Center” at NICAR in Indianapolis ( Materials » )
• March • “First LLM Classifier” at NICAR in Indianapolis
• Jan. • “Go big with Github Actions” at IRE Watchdog Workshop in New York

2025

• Dec. • “Storytelling with graphics: From raw data to reader impact” at Observable webinar in Zoom ( Video » )
• Nov. • “DV&C Presents: Signal in the Noise” at SVA Theatre in Manhattan ( Materials » )
• Oct. • “What AI means for covering money” at SABEW Personal Finance Summit in New York ( Materials » )
• June • “Harnessing AI: How journalists can reap the benefits – and avoid the pitfalls – of emerging AI tools” at SABEW online panel in Zoom ( Video » )
• May • “Journalism in the visual age” at Canva meetup in New York City
• May • “A conversation with Ben Welsh” at IRE Radio in SoundCloud ( Audio » )
• 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
• March • “First Athena Query” at NICAR in Minneapolis
• March • “Go big with GitHub Actions” at NICAR in Minneapolis
• Feb. • “FOIA Fellowship” at DePaul University Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence in Zoom

2024

• June • “Episode 20: Data journalism (feat. Ben Welsh)” at Unspun in Pocket Casts ( Audio » )
• May • “First Python Notebook: Data Analysis on Deadline” at Knight Center at UT-Austin in an online class
• 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 • “Bare Facts First: How Reuters uses Datawrapper to create, automate and disseminate hundreds of charts each week” at Datawrapper in Streamyard ( Video » · Materials » )
• March • “What is a Data Journalist?” at CSPA Spring Convention in New York City ( Materials » )
• March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Baltimore
• March • “First Automated Chart” at NICAR in Baltimore
• March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Baltimore

2023

• Oct. • “Have a little fun with FOIA” at National FOIA Summit 23 in Zoom
• March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in New Orleans
• March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Nashville
• March • “Introducing moneyinpolitics.wtf” at NICAR in Nashville
• March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Nashville

2022

• Dec. • “First Pull Request” at the e.e. cummings free poetry archive in Zoom ( Video » )
• Oct. • “How do we make FOI fun?” at National FOIA Summit 22 in Zoom
• Sept. • “Fast First Python Notebook” at ONA22 in Zoom ( Video » )
• Aug. • “What is Big Local News?” at 17º Congresso Internacional de Journalismo da Abraji in São Paulo
• July • “First Python Notebook” at JSK Connect Master Class in Zoom
• April • “Data Journalism Workshop” at 14East Magazine in Zoom ( Video » )
• 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 » )
• March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR in Atlanta
• March • “First GitHub Scraper” at NICAR in Atlanta
• March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR in Atlanta
• Feb. • “The state of local data journalism” at The Data Journalism Podcast in Zoom ( Audio » )

2021

• Nov. • “How the Low Angeles Times overhauled its graphics workflow” at OpenNews Community Call in SoundCloud
• Sept. • “Beyond JMS: The power of Python” at San Diego State University in Zoom ( Video » )
• 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
• 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 ( 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 ( 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 ( Materials » )
• June • “What is a Data Desk?” at Hollywood Data Science in Los Angeles ( Materials » )
• April • “What I learned” 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
• 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 • “Data journalists and data teams: Where we are and where we want to go” at NICAR in Denver
• March • “First News App” 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. • “What is a Data Desk?” at CCCB Lab in Barcelona ( Video » · Materials » )
• Dec. • “First Web Scraper” 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

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 • “Is 911 a joke in your town?” at NICAR in Louisville ( Materials » )
• March • “Django Retrained” at NICAR in Louisville ( Video » · 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 » )