Presentations, panels and other appearances

2024

• Undercovered stories about trans communities

  Panel at NICAR conference in Baltimore

• Your Own Worst Enemy: How to organize your work so your future self won't hate you

  Lightning talk at NICAR conference in Baltimore

2023

• Looking Outside the Circle: Working Responsibly with Statistical Systems

  Presentation at 34th MINDS Conference in Madrid

• The Near and the Far: Using and Publishing Data in AP's Global Newsroom

  Presentation at 34th MINDS Conference in Madrid

• Regular expressions for the rest of us

  Class taught at NICAR conference in Nashville

• How and when to open-source your code and analysis

  Panel at NICAR conference in Nashville

• Don't believe the hype: How to stay grounded amid the latest tech bandwagon and encourage your colleagues to do the same

  Session at SRCCON in Minneapolis

2022

• Creating a pipeline to management: Retaining and cultivating equitable spaces for a diverse newsroom

  Panel at NICAR conference in Atlanta

• Using GitHub in your newsroom

  Class taught at NICAR conference in Atlanta

2020

• Regular expressions for the rest of us

  Class taught at NICAR conference in New Orleans

• What Rocket Science Can Teach Us About Designing For Humans

  Lightning talk at NICAR conference in New Orleans

2018

• [BLANK] is the Future of Journalism

  Panel discussion at the Online News Association's conference in Austin, Texas

• Good Copy Editors Make Good Data Journalists

  Lightning talk at NICAR conference in Chicago (view video, with available captions)

• Add Context to Your Stories with Data

  Presentation at the Illinois College Press Association's annual convention in Chicago

2017

• How to succeed in an industry with no one path to success

  Panel at the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference in Washington, D.C.

• Regular expressions

  Class taught at NICAR conference in Jacksonville, Florida

2016

• Robots in Journalism: Can they add value to news publishing?

  Presentation at WAN-IFRA India 2016 in Kolkata

• Every day I'm juggling: Managing managers, peer expectations, and your own project ideas

  Session at SRCCON in Portland, Oregon

• Can a robot do my job?

  Panel at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy

• Bots in Journalism

  Presentation at Botwiki Edit-a-Thon in New York

• The Bot Emporium: A selection of parts, platforms, applications and ideas for your newsroom

  Presentation at NICAR conference in Denver

2015

• Build Bots to Boost Your Reporting

  Panel at the Online News Association's conference in Los Angeles

• Post Hoc Justifications for Newsroom Chat Bots

  Session at SRCCON in Minneapolis

• Can News Be Automated?

  Presentation at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York

2014

• Handguns and Tequila: Avoiding Data Disasters

  Session at SRCCON in Philadelphia

• Newsrooms of the Future

  Panel at the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference in Washington, D.C.

2013

• Algorithms and Machine Learning

  Presentation for the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Online News Association