Talks

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

2023

Oct. • “Have a little fun with FOIA” at National FOIA Summit 23 in Zoom

2022

Dec. • “First Pull Request” at the e.e. cummings free poetry archive in Zoom (Video » Slides »)

Oct. • “How do we make FOI fun?” at National FOIA Summit 22 in Zoom

Sept. • “Fast First Python Notebook” at ONA22 in Zoom (Video » Slides »)

Aug. • “What is Big Local News?” at 17º Congresso Internacional de Journalismo da Abraji in São Paulo (Slides »)

July • “First Python Notebook” at JSK Connect Master Class in Zoom

April • “Data Journalism Workshop” at 14East Magazine in Zoom (Video » Slides »)

April • “A beginner’s guide to FBI crime statistics” at The California Newsroom in Zoom (Slides »)

April • “Scaling up scrapers with Prefect and Google Cloud” at Prefect Live in Twitch (Video » Slides »)

March • “First Visual Story” at NICAR22 in Atlanta (Slides »)

March • “First GitHub Scraper” at NICAR22 in Atlanta (Slides »)

March • “First Python Notebook” at NICAR22 in Atlanta (Slides »)

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 » Slides »)

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 » Slides »)

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

Dec. • “What is a Data Desk?” 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 »)