UPDATE: Students have now pitched tents on at least 100 college campuses. More than 1,600 protesters have been arrested as of this morning.

updated story here 🎁🔗 (same url as before): tinyurl.com/2bu64fex

I finished the thing. natureofcode.com

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My 'Mastering #GDAL Tools' course is now available on YouTube! This course is the result of my 20 years of experience processing large volumes of imagery and building data pipelines. Check out the playlist at youtube.com/playlist?list=… . More in the thread below (1/n)

The Data Institute began because Sisi Wei & Lena V. Groeger saw an equity gap in training for data journalism. The intensive, free workshop has helped nearly 100 journalists since 2016, and this year’s program is July 8-19 in DC. Apply by April 25: cjddatainstitute.org

Last month, I spoke at ChangeNOW on journalists' role in auditing AI for public service. My talk focused on my investigation with Dina Bass into bias in image generators, and our work on GPT's name-based discrimination led by Leon Yin Davey Alba⤵️

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To celebrate🌎Earth day, Julia Han Janicki 🌻 & I took a look through 🌈colors how our decisions today shapes the future! Compare your climate colors with other famous people under different scenarios! the-tardigrade.com/projects/clima… #EarthDay2024 #ClimateAction #DataViz #ShowYourStripes

😂 Need to do a cat version for Ko Ko. Throw in some facial expression analysis as well

we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

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Next week is the first two sessions of Practical AI for Journalism!

It won't be anything fancy, just basic and useful: how to use AI to sort documents into categories and extract data (plus how to validate the results!)

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public flagship schools (UGA, UVA, UMass, UNC...) may have better ROI than elite private colleges (Oberlin, Tulane, Tufts...)
click around on this story if you're trying to make a college decision. gift link:
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

w/ Paulina Cachero Francesca Maglione Cédric Sam

Some of my fav eclipse graphics from the NYT Graphics vault: 1932, 1926, 1925 and 1963.

Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data

Loved this chart type, sort of a stacked-area voronoi, that raeedah رَیدہ created! 🤩 Also thanks to Yue Qiu for her graphics edits and guidance!

Do I need a new iPhone charger? No, I have so many. Do I need this iPhone charger? Absolutely, yes I do.

On average, a total solar eclipse passes by a given point on Earth once every 375 years

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lesley + I report on what makes them so rare~
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Made this big big chart of wait times per medical specialties, and how it's increased across almost all disciplines since 1993. If you take neurosurgery for example, it takes about 31 more weeks to go from GP referral to treatment now than it did 30 years ago.