In the small town of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, there is a college lacrosse team unlike any other.

The Chowan Hawks roster has players from six different countries.

Read more about the most interesting team in the nation

lacrosseculturedaily.com/2024/04/13/fin…

After 23 amazing years at Merrill, our Associate Professor Ira Chinoy will be retiring at the end of the semester. 😢

Check out this Q&A with Ira Chinoy, who looks back at his time here and discusses bringing data journalism to Merrill: merrill.umd.edu/articles/qa-me…

Applications are open for the 2024 Data Institute: Two weeks of FREE data journalism training at Howard University in DC on July 8-19, co-sponsored by Ida B. Wells Society & Center for Journalism & Democracy.

Apply by April 25, and bring more data, design, and code into your work! cjddatainstitute.org

If you use the ProPublica Congress API, I have some bad news & hopefully some less bad news:

The Congress API will be shut down on July 5. New sign-ups have been turned off already.

Some of the unique data it in will live on as a bulk-data service that I will maintain. More…

Very proud of the Merrill College @ Maryland students who worked on this important project.

IRE members, join us for our next election series webinar!

Derek Willis will help you discover new ways of thinking about money in politics and finding great campaign finance stories.

Register here ➡️ ire.org/event/webinar-… #Journalism #CampaignFinance

Oh, and the data behind that story? Yeah, I got you: github.com/Sports-Roster-…

Women’s college basketball teams have a slightly bigger European and African presence this season but noticeably fewer players from Australia. My latest for Her Hoop Stats:

herhoopstats.substack.com/p/more-interna…

I'm just glad for the chance to make an impact.

Big Ten football team rushing yards per carry this season (before today, blue line is conference average).

Maryland in first half: 7 carries for 0 yards.

Hey Merrill College @ Maryland students! Looking for a way to search for spring 2024 classes across departments? I got you covered:

umd-courses-2962d4169324.herokuapp.com/testudo/course…

Interested in learning how to build useful apps like that? Take 328O/628O, my class on News Application Development!

producing and directing Maryland Women’s Basketball today at 1 for B1G+! tune in for a great exhibition game against ECU.

I have a couple of BlueSky invites in case folks are interested.

Quantitative findings should be supplemented with theory driven deductions and systematic, qualitative interpretation. Unless you want to make people angry and get clicks.

Derek Willis Michael Locksley This is correct, and here you go:

ngl, maybe the best thing about Maryland’s win over Towson was the promo video for next week’s night game where Michael Locksley sings “In the Air Tonight”. Need that video.

Really wonderful story from Elizabeth Merrill on Nebraska volleyball, how it set the standard, built a following and program. Tomorrow, it will pack the Huskers' football stadium.

espn.com/college-sports…

One of my students efficiently took action, politely but urgently prompting me to move everyone to a more secure location and check the locks on an adjoining classroom. I looked in their eyes and immediately realized they’d done this many, many times before. We have failed them.