A computational journalism reading list
[Last updated: 18 April 2011 -- added statistical NLP book link] There is something extraordinarily rich in the intersection of computer science and journalism. It feels like there’s a nascent field in...
View ArticleInvestigating thousands (or millions) of documents by visualizing clusters
This is a recording of my talk at the NICAR (National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference last week, where I discuss some of our recent work at the AP with the Iraq and Afghanistan war...
View ArticleThe editorial search engine
It’s impossible to build a computer system that helps people find or filter information without at some point making editorial judgements. That’s because search and collaborative filtering algorithms...
View ArticleA job posting that really doesn’t suck
I just got a pile of money to build a piece of state-of-the-art open-source visualization software, to allow journalists and curious people everywhere to make sense of enormous document dumps, leaked...
View ArticleLearn to program, then and now
Learning to program a computer is hard. While you can learn to make useful things in a few months, mastery may take a decade. It’s not like learning to bake a cake or shoot a video. It’s more like...
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