Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock. You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent ...

This is an article about a very specific but important part—the election results loader—of the New York Times’ elections coverage online. The initial election results loader was written mostly by Ben ...

Max Siegelbaum is the co-founder and co-executive director of Documented. He edits the news coverage on the site and has held most of the positions in the newsroom.

Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...

About this series: Sincerely, Leaders of Color is written for everyone in the journalism industry who cares about creating a more supportive environment for journalists of color to do their best work.

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

Here are the results of the 2022 News Nerd Survey, which offer a snapshot of our community and hopes to understand its needs. We are thankful for the responses. This survey follows the previous ones ...

The Local’s months-long investigation of Toronto’s Vision Zero road-safety program grew out of a plan to analyze speeding in school zones across the city. What we found was significant inequity in the ...

Katie L. Burke is an award-winning editor and science writer. As digital features editor at American Scientist, she shares the wonder of science and helps scientists tell their stories. She also ...

This article was written and originally published by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Olivia Martin and Martin Shelton, both of FPF, and reporter Jessica Bruder led a session at SRCCON 2022 about ...

For journalists wanting to make their work accessible to people with disabilities, alt text is a great place to start. This short guide can help you think about how to add helpful alt text to images, ...