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2020

To apply AI for good, think form extractionRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
24 Oct 2020

2019

What tools do we have to combat disinformation?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
24 Jun 2019
An Introduction to Algorithmic Bias and Quantitative FairnessRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jun 2019
Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learningRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Jun 2019
Ethical Software Engineering Lab CourseRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
12 May 2019

2017

Introducing WorkbenchRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Mar 2017
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-PropagandaRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
24 Feb 2017

2016

What do Journalists do with Documents?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Nov 2016
The Dark Clouds of Financial CryptographyRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
11 Oct 2016
The Origin of BankingRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Sept 2016
What Data Can’t Tell Us About Buying PoliticiansRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Sept 2016
Sometimes an algorithm really is (politically) unbiasedRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Aug 2016
Startups vs. Systems: Why Doing Good with Tech is HardRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Aug 2016
It’s not you: Political journalism really is brokenRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jan 2016

2015

Words and numbers in journalism: How to tell when your story needs dataRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Jul 2015
The Editorial ProductRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Mar 2015

2014

Job: Help us learn how teaching works by visualizing millions of syllabiRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
20 Oct 2014
How can I help?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
21 Jun 2014
What I learned at Build Peace, the first conference for technology and conflict resolutionRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Apr 2014
Questions about the NYPD I cannot answerRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
23 Apr 2014

2013

Peace, Conflict, and DataRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Jul 2013
Recent workRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Jul 2013

2012

Journalism is more than one thingRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Jun 2012
The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problemsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 May 2012
Darfur and the limits of public outcryRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
7 May 2012
What does Google gain by not letting me use any name I want?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
26 Jan 2012
Norms, Laws, and CodeRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Jan 2012

2011

Wiki variationsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
29 Dec 2011
What should the digital public sphere do?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Nov 2011
What’s with this programmer-journalist identity crisis?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
6 Oct 2011
Journalism for makersRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
22 Sept 2011
Visualizing communitiesRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Aug 2011
The new structure of stories: a reading listRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
26 Jul 2011
A job posting that really doesn’t suckRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Jul 2011
The challenges of distributed investigative journalismRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
25 May 2011
Measuring and improving accuracy in journalismRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
20 Apr 2011
On “Balance”Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Apr 2011
The publishing industry needs a lightweight, open, paid syndication technologyRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Apr 2011
Knight News Challenge 2011 FinalistsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Apr 2011
The editorial search engineRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
26 Mar 2011
UN asks Ushahidi to produce Crisis Map of LibyaRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Mar 2011
Investigating thousands (or millions) of documents by visualizing clustersRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
28 Feb 2011
A computational journalism reading listRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Feb 2011
The state of The State of the Union coverage, onlineRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
29 Jan 2011
What is news when the audience is editor?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jan 2011

2010

By the numbers, American journalism failed to inform votersRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Dec 2010
Does journalism work?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
14 Dec 2010
A full-text visualization of the Iraq War LogsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Dec 2010
Overview: a tool for exploring large document setsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Dec 2010
ClimateRapidResponse.org aims to connect journalists to real climate scientists, on deadlineRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Nov 2010
How do we know that short stories do better online?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
29 Nov 2010
What’s the point of social news?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
17 Nov 2010
Designing journalism to be usedRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Sept 2010
Girls lean back everywhere: American censorship and the snail’s pace of social changeRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
18 Jul 2010
Short doesn’t mean shallowRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Jun 2010
Internet as information democracy, or new media news monopolies?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 May 2010
Don’t throw that out! Editing like it’s paper destroys journalistic valueRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
23 Apr 2010
The world cannot be represented in machine-readable formRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Apr 2010
My suggestions for Dowser.org, who aim to report on global solutionsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Apr 2010
Countries Seen Through CommentsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Mar 2010
When you have to freeze your phone, technology is too complexRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Feb 2010
Brain-Sharing, IllustratedRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Feb 2010
Jürgen Habermas says he’s not on TwitterRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Feb 2010
Identity, Anonymity, and Controlling TrollsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
25 Jan 2010
The Surreal World of Jakarta Malls: A Photo EssayRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jan 2010
We’re Seriously Not Giving These Guys an Education?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
4 Jan 2010
Not Quite Global New YearRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Jan 2010

2009

A Two Block Walk on New Year’s Eve in JakartaRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
31 Dec 2009
Comments on the New York Times’ Comments SystemRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Dec 2009
Nobel Winner Patiently Shows Adam Smith WrongRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
22 Dec 2009
Newsroom vs. Web Culture ClashRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Dec 2009
What Internet Censorship Looks Like in Qatar, BahrainRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
18 Dec 2009
Lifelogging + Machine Transcription = Public Reporters’ NotebooksRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
17 Dec 2009
Best Visualizations of 2009Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Dec 2009
The Structure of Social JournalismRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Dec 2009
Five (Long) Videos about Journalism TransformedRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Dec 2009
What is the Right Number of Journalists?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Dec 2009
Augmented Reality Ghost HunterRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
21 Nov 2009
Advertising Got There FirstRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
20 Nov 2009
The News Doesn’t Matter if No One CaresRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
11 Nov 2009
Who Wants to Hack Twitter With Me?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
21 Oct 2009
“Low-Profit” Corporations Enable Social Venture CapitalRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Oct 2009
“Risky” Interactive Art Returns to Tate Modern After 38 YearsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
14 Oct 2009
The Search Problem vs. The News ProblemRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Oct 2009
iPhone Augmented Reality Arrives — But When Will We Make Art With It?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
5 Oct 2009
Advertisers Smoking Crack, and the Future of Journalism According to Leo LaporteRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
4 Oct 2009
Know Your EnemyRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Sept 2009
Why We Need Open Search, and How to Make Money Doing ItRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Sept 2009
Rating Items by Number of Votes: Ur Doin It RongRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
25 Sept 2009
Mapping the Daily MeRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
24 Sept 2009
Requiem For The Front PageRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
22 Sept 2009
The New York Times Doesn’t Understand Twitter and IranRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Sept 2009
How Your Friends Affect You, Now With MathRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
17 Sept 2009
American Press Covers Debate, Not Health CareRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Sept 2009
What Can You Do, What Do You Do?Read at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Sept 2009
Ever-Smaller ApartmentsRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
31 Aug 2009
We Were Wrong About GiraffesRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Aug 2009
Self-Replicating Desktop Manufacturing: Dreams and RealityRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
31 Jul 2009
Making Things out of FireRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
22 Jul 2009
Better Foreign Policy Through Hip-HopRead at jonathanstray.com (opens in a new tab)
18 Jul 2009
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