Rahul B (@[email protected])
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Community data & computational journalism. @[email protected], rahulbot.bsky.social, @rahulbot on Instagram.
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http://dataculture.northeastern.edu 26-03-2008 03:12:23
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Had fun hosting a mini-workshop on learning data storytelling via sculptures with WPS Institute students earlier this week. Loads of fun materials and projects using City of Boston tree and 311 data. Thanks for inviting me ππ½
Our 2023 paper studied media coverage of VP Harris in partisan media. Findings? Condemnation & vilification on the right, celebrification on the left. With Meg Heckman and Emily Boardman Ndulue using Media Cloud data. Will this time around be better? π€π½ doi.org/10.1080/146807β¦
Excited to share video from my talk at CSVConf @[email protected] earlier this year. Here's 20 minutes of inspirational examples and theories for doing more creative, appropriate, and effective data representation in your justice-focused work. A proto-book talk youtube.com/watch?v=To6yczβ¦
TechEquity We found that almost two-thirds of the landlords we surveyed received tenant screening reports that contained some AI-generated score or recommendation, and they often rely heavily on the score alone to make rental decisions.
Celebrate your heroes. (via Southern Poverty Law Center - learningforjustice.org/magazine/sprin⦠)
Honored to be featured in Alberto Cairo 's latest newsletter. He's been so supportive while I worked on "Community Data", and was kind enough to highlight some themes he took away from it. Subscribe to his "The Art of Insight" newsletter for that & more: theartofinsight.substack.com
Excited to present new work at AEJMC! We helped The Scope audit who they quoted in their news based on pronouns. Trying out a careful use of gen-AI to solve a computational journalism problem ML can't. (Meg Heckman, Elisabeth Hadjis, NU Journalism)
The fight over "weird": early poking shows left-learning media echoed "Trump/Vance are weird" framing, then right-leaning media tried to fight back. Overall the line is fading, but gets a bounce in media use whenever Harris or Waltz uses it. Data from Media Cloud.
Just announced: 3 amazing keynote speakers for C+J ππ½ Julia Angwin, Aaron Sankin, Alan Mislove. Join us Oct 25-27 in Boston at Northeastern. Registration live: idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-directorβ¦