Online betting has taken over sports. Almost every official team website mentions odds on a betting site weekly. Just 6 teams don't mention them at all. Is that policy at Texans, Titans, Bears, Dolphins, Chiefs or Falcons? Data from @mediacloud.bsky.social
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Data journalism tech tip: it's a big of a hack, but I really do appreciate that you can upload your own SVGs for making pictograph bar charts in Flourish. I just had to figure this out with a student in my data storytelling class & was delighted that it is possible. 👏🏽
Domain-specific, culturally sensitive, datasets like this are critical for the supporting global research questions in digital humanities 👏🏽
Years ago I tried to audit cultural diversity in cuisine publications, but language & image models were *terrible* at recognizing non-western foods. A global team recently released a new set of image training data to try and address this problem 🎉 aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
I consistently find my journalism undergrads have thoughtful & critical takes on AI in the industry. My colleague @dankennedy.net wrote up a recent story that made the rounds, touching on many of the same issues that came up in class when I introduced it. dankennedy.net/2026/02/17/a...
flyer with details for the upcoming lecture and talk on Mar 4 and 5
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Got friends in WI? I'm excited to be at the @uwmadison.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Hub next week for a lecture and workshop on arts-based approaches to community data storytelling and visualization. A wonderful chance to bring more topics from my Community Data book to life!
This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)
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Live view of Boston, Massachusetts.
A solid "look in the mirror" report: newsrooms are doing less of the technology work in the open. Ideas to change it include teaching open-source skills like GitHub to students 👏🏽 source.opennews.org/articles/jou...
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.
Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.
Olympic medals are a good place to play with the Emojicon Creator I made last year: emojicon-creator.netlify.app
20 USA medals: 6 x 🥇, 9 x 🥈, 5 x 🥉:
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Substack continues to have no problem making money from, and amplifying, Nazi content. I've heard Beehiv is a good alternative. A reminder on the now classic "freedom of speech vs. freedom of reach": www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Excited to be heading to Yale this week for a quick guest lecture on data vis for the social sector with @katecooney.bsky.social. Drop me a line if you're in New Haven!
UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
New & necessary thinking from @kanarinka.bsky.social trying to explain technofascism to those involved in its systems: medium.com/data-feminis... "the collusion of large technology firms, right-wing billionaires, and tech culture with authoritarian and anti-democratic political agendas "
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
📆 Mark your calendar: "CyberHearts" (🤣) party & fundraiser *Sat 14th @ 8pm*. Cyberarts gallery has been a welcoming home to show student work many times 💜 Come support local arts in Boston! givebutter.com/Cyberhearts2...
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
You will cry.
Then you will believe this kind of imprisonment is a crime against humanity.
Keep up the pressure on those in power to end this.
And they kept the celebration going outside the stadium 🎉🇵🇷. This is the joy that I love about playing street music!!! bsky.app/profile/esqu...
Take a break today to revel in the joy of a man unapologetically celebrating his Boricua culture. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Then learn more from @beckyhammer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/beck...
Headlines in news writing indicate what you stand for. They are a statement of priorities.
How did the WSJ use open-source investigation techniques to uncover the series of events that led to the terrible killing of Pretti? The backstory is on Storybench:
www.storybench.org/how-an-open-...
There's outrage to be had as a journalism Prof every day, but sometimes you just gotta write a solidarity letter. I'm pleased to join current and former colleagues in condemning the latest arrests of journalists: huntnewsnu.com/91095/editor...
So many niche publications are stepping up with helpful journalism in the ongoing crisis in the US. Latest example is this wonderful Signal guide for community organizers from the Verge 👏🏽
www.theverge.com/tech/872493/...
Excited to be speaking Wed evening on "Doing Civic Data Design" with the UConn Digital Media & Design speaker series. Join the YT stream online 📺 dmd.uconn.edu/major/divers...
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
Journalists are being arrested in the United States.
It’s time for everyone to read @mariaressa.bsky.social’s How To Stand Up to a Dictator and watch the documentary A Thousand Cuts.
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The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
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