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Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at @Stanford University.
Palo Alto, California, USA
Joined August 2018
🗳️ Working on an election data story? Big Local News has you covered! Drop into our open virtual office hours on Nov. 8, 10am-12pm PT, for expert guidance with data requests and analysis. Check out all the details here:
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Date: November 8th
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🗳️ Big Local News is partnering with Election Urgent Care to provide newsrooms with fast, expert support on election-related data. Check out all the details here ➡️ https://t.co/NKwY3A1tBJ
#Election2024 #DataJournalism
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Big Local News is part of a collaborative effort with multiple organizations to help U.S. newsrooms handle the elections, and challenges that may rise after.
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🗳️ With elections underway, you may be exploring individual campaign contributions using FEC data. Use our story recipe to learn how to work with the most up-to-date data:
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The elections are here and you may be working on a report on individual contributions using FEC data, but you might have noticed that the processed FEC data does not include the last few months of...
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🗳️ Need help with your election data story? Join Big Local News for our virtual open office hours on Nov. 8 from 10am to 12pm (PT). Get guidance on your data requests, processing and analysis. Check out all the details here: https://t.co/gcTqoqFFf8
#Elections2024
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Date: November 8th
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Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out the new tool from @biglocalnews, DataTalk. #ddj #journalism
https://t.co/WUqxH7MhaJ
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hi world! are you interested in writing stories about campaign finance (or understand how money flows)? 🗣️📈DATATALK📈🗣️ is a platform for asking natural language Qs of FEC data that I've been working on with @StanfordOVAL+@BigLocalNews+@BrownInstitute
https://t.co/gttYbQlR2R
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There's new data in the @ProPublica 527 explorer! Over 100k new records are available from these political nonprofits. We're nearing an election, so the IRS filing schedule is increased. The result: very fresh data. The data now covers up to October 16. https://t.co/BPXwZ1WN4z
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Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out our new tool @biglocalnews, DataTalk!
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DataTalk is an experimental system that makes it easier to follow the money flowing through national campaigns for the Nov. 5 U.S. election. It allows for natural-language queries of large public...
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🧵Tool spotlight: Prompted by research by one of our engineers, @JoeNudell, the United States Place Sampler tool by @themarkup and @BigLocalNews provides insights into address-level internet access disparities. Read more here:
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Easily sample random U.S. street addresses using this new tool from Big Local News and The Markup
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We partnered with @BigLocalNews to archive the data analysis from our brain waste series to ensure journalists are able to tell their own localized stories of brain waste.
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Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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Big Local News is hiring a senior data journalist! We collect, clean & analyze data in collaboration with newsrooms, train reporters in data analysis, and collaborate with Stanford students on data related projects. Check out all the details here ➡️
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Big Local News is hiring a senior data journalist to work with our small but mighty team. We are a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative and collect local data to...
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True accountability often relies on insiders coming forward with information for the public good. At #IRE24, let’s talk about whistleblowers and AI with @DelphineHalgand, @garanceburke and @ErikaMCheung, who was a key whistleblower in the Theranos scandal uncovered by @WSJ.
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Are you a journalist keeping tabs on school board debates? Or tracking city contracts scooped up by certain companies? @BigLocalNews’ Agenda Watch platform is designed to help you shine light on the business of local government. Learn more at #IRE24: https://t.co/SvsoYsmGKy
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🧵Back by popular demand! @IRE_NICAR #IRE24 speakers with R. First up: most popular names. The Matts by a margin! @MattCData @mvtopic @mizzousundevil @2littlemice Props to @cephillips & @cherylwt who have three sessions each & made the more-unique "Cheryl" into a powerhouse.
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This year's @SRCCON program is full of peer-led sessions on newsroom tech, reframing our approach to election coverage, celebrating creativity in data work, and dreaming of new futures for journalism. All we're missing is you! Join us this August!
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A peer-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.
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@BigLocalNews Now is the time to get the data help you need! Join our call. Live, right now!
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Are you struggling to use data in your data-driven story? Don’t miss our quarterly virtual open office hours. Today, between 9 am and 12 pm Pacific Time, Big Local News’ team will be available to resolve your questions. Check out the details here:
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Do you have questions about where to find data? Or how to analyze it? Or do you want to do some brainstorming about a data-driven story? Join our virtual open office hours tomorrow from 9 am to 12 pm (PT)! Check out all the details here ⬇️
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Are you struggling to use the data in your data-driven story? Don’t miss our quarterly virtual open office hours. June 14th, between 9 am and 12 pm Pacific Time, Big Local News' team will be available to resolve your questions. Save the date! ➡️
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Recruiting season is underway. Friends at #INNDays24, come find me at the @nytimes booth to talk about the Local Investigations Fellowship and other programs/jobs. Good a good local investigative pitch? We're taking applications. https://t.co/gVOvcaxGHf
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