More @mediacloud.bsky.social behind-the-scenes: this new viz shows us how stories move through our ingestion system. About 85% of the URLs we fetched over two days made it into our index. Great work from our dev team 👏🏽 I love a good sankey diagram!
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
Congratulations, America. You successfully bullied another immigrant into leaving because this place has become fucking absolutely untenable for us.
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It was my birthday recently and I thought all you data nerds might enjoy this card my family got me last year 🤣
After a successful discharge petition, the House approves a bill forcing the Trump Administration to give some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. a temporary legal immigration status - letting them stay in the country. 10 GOP lawmakers voted Yes.
and a sanity check: football coverage is seasonal
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"American" is used more in headlines on right
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"trump" still dominates headlines; the right even writes about him over xmas(!)
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"illegal" is consistently used on by the right in headlines dataculture.northeastern.edu/our-own-term...
Project upgrade: explore a partisan breakdown of top words used in American online news headlines each week. Using Media Cloud data. dataculture.northeastern.edu/our-own-terms/
Some initial things I noticed 🧵
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Recently upgraded my in-office @mediacloud.bsky.social internals data dashboard display to an even bigger one! Now I gotta get a proper wall mount for it so I'm not worried it will slip and fall 🤞🏽 Powered by a tiny Raspberry PI. Shows how our data pipeline and servers are performing live.
How can we reduce building carbon emission in Boston?
What's the difference in US success from summer to winter Olympics?
How are live sports ticket sales flourishing in an age of streaming?
What are the greatest threats to right whales near Boston?
Are Boston's new fare-free buses reliable?
Why are Grammy winners always pop when streaming genres are more diverse?
Student work 🎉 I'm teaching undergrad data storytelling and wanted to share some great stories and supporting charts students made earlier this semester. Datawrapper, StoryMaps, Tableau, Flourish. 🧵
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth.
My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...
My spring Data Culture Group newsletter update just went out! Subscribe now to get occasional updates on my research in computational journalism, community data, digital humanities, public interest tech, and more. dataculture.beehiiv.com
Curious about the latest learnings, activities & results from our data theatre work? Join in person or online for a session on "Civic Data Theatre and Municipal Climate Action" on April 14th. camd.northeastern.edu/events/civic...
you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today
even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now
how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it
Screenshot of a vertical stream graph over time with 5 streams colored red/purple/green. There's a bulge at the top and a thin tail down at bottom.
🚧 work in progress
At a local TV newsroom? My colleague Mike Beaudet is recruiting another round of partners to host innovation fellows working on new visual forms for younger audiences. Watch the trailer to learn more. www.youtube.com/watch?si=nHp... apply at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.
More terrible news from NSF “leadership”. US research funding continues to be decimated. The impacts will last decades.
Weekend read: Rethinking what "accuracy" means for automated classifiers in an AI era. Bigger isn't always better. Let communities define success. Evaluate systems, not algorithms. Work with @yujiagao.bsky.social for Counterdata Network with @pregnancyjust.bsky.social .
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Finicky but awesome is my first opinion 🤣
