Dhrumil Mehta

Those "BREAKING" news alerts on your timeline might be connected to Polymarket. Read my new story from the @TowCenter on the betting market's affiliation to innocuously named accounts like @NewsWire_US and @rawsalerts cjr.org/tow_center/pol…

When we asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly. @Aisvarya17 @klaudiajaz @CJR @columbiajourn cjr.org/tow_center/why…

Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyeight

damn. end of an era. ABC completely fumbled a real jewel.

🚨This is an invaluable resource for many a journalist and researcher - utterly non partisan but a source for transparency about money in politics now under financial threat

This comes as initiatives are looking to revive struggling local newsrooms. “What could that $6 million have done if it was dedicated to local quality journalism?” wondered Anna Brugmann of Rebuild Local News. You can read the story here on CJR! cjr.org/tow_center/cou…

Some of the ads (like the ones shown here) were explicitly political ads aiming to mobilize votes for Democratic candidates.

Students in the Data Journalism MS program @columbiajourn worked with @TowCenter to track a big October digital ad spend by Courier Newsroom, an organization that blurs the line between political campaigning and local journalism. cjr.org/tow_center/cou…

@bencasselman @NateSilver538 Great thread @bencasselman! I see a lesson plan ✏️ :)

Final note: I interpret what @NateSilver538 was doing here as old-school blogging. He noticed an interesting pattern in the polling data, had an intuition about what might be behind it, and ran a quick-and-dirty analysis to check. I'm all for that! And I intend this thread in the same spirit.

So this was an interesting finding from @NateSilver538, but one I found odd because @BLS_gov publishes CPI for regions (and for some metro areas) but not for states. So I dug into it a bit, and there's less here than meets the eye.

Courier Newsroom spent big on a Meta ad blitz in October. Combined, the progressive “newsroom”’s over $6 million ad spend on Meta was second only to the Trump and Harris official campaigns. From @TowCenter cjr.org/tow_center/cou…

Today is the final day to register for our AI and the Newsroom conference! RSVP on Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-the-n…

@MishaTeplitskiy @profjamesevans This sounds great! Would you mind sharing what dataset you’re using? Or if anybody has a good one that they’ve tried this with I’d be excited to see it.

@profjamesevans :-) I'm gonna try it in about 2 weeks. Will report back

💡Class activity idea to teach students about overfitting / p-hacking in a fun (???) way: 1. Give them a small dataset with tons of predictors 2. Ask them to find the most "counterintuitive story" where p < 0.05 3. Surprise them with a holdout set (!!!) and test story Has anyone tried this? What dataset did you use? Tips/tricks? -

Join us for a sweeping exploration of AI and ethics in today’s journalism, including discussions from leading industry thinkers and news practitioners, hands-on workshops, and new research. @columbiajourn Reserve your spot: eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-the-n…

Haven't heard of us? Join the Data Journalism Teachers' Club or check out our past events 📆 and blogposts 🖊️at datajournalismteachers.club!

This summer Dr. @anitasundrani will lead us through a "Backwards Design" approach to designing classes! Part 1 : July 10 - Effective Assessments Part 2: Aug 14 - Building a Better Syllabus Part 3: Sept (TBD) - Aligning your teaching with your new syllabus

𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀! The Data Journalism Teachers' Club's first✏️online hands-on course design workshop✏️ with Dr. @anitasundrani is on Wednesday. 🛠️Sign up below to build with us!🛠️ eventbrite.com/e/939722765087

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our @columbiajourn students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… @PulitzerPrizes

Dismayed at the dis- and misinformation swirling around the protests @columbia , #cjsStabile students @columbiajourn are exposing falsehoods in a new @X account called @CJS_FACTCHECK.

My @columbiajourn students are out reporting non-stop: working sources they've built over months, navigating the campus unlike any outsider, and adding much-needed context, humanity and depth to coverage. If you're an editor looking to commission them, get in touch.